Jenner and vaccination : a strange chapter of medical history / Charles Creighton.

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1889
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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. jenner's scientific credit before vaccination. Jenner and John Hunter.—Banks' and Cook's Expeditions.—Hunter's Letters.—Hibernation.—The Cuckoo.—Paper for the Royal Society. —Elected Fellow.—Theory of Cuckoo's Instinct.—Jenner's Origui- ality.—A Wondrous Tale.—Imaginative Anatomy of Cuckoo's Back. —Accepted by Ornithologists i-iS. CHAPTER II. THE POX, THE SMALLPOX, AND THE COWPOX. The Folklore of Cowpox.—The Legend a Localized One.—Origin of the Legend.—Benjamin Jesty.—A Second Theme for the Royal Society. •—Origin of the Name Smallpox.—Origin of the Name Pox.— Why the Pox so Called.—Why Cowpox so Called.—The Legend to be made Scientific.—Jenner's Notions get Wind.—His Paper Returned by the Royal Society.—Plis Original Theory.—The Evidence.—A Sham Test.—Cowpox not Fully Described.—Implied Likeness to Smallpox.—Called Smallpox of the Cow.—No Reasons Given.— Facts Suppressed.—James Phipps Tested.—Significance of Royal Society's Action ........ pp. 19-48. CHAPTER in. JENNER'S inquiry. The Horse-Grease Doctrine Appears.—The Paper Re-Written.—The Preface or Programme.— Vague and Indeterminate Notions.— Cowpox as known to Fewster and others.—As known to Clayton the Veterinarian.—Evidence of Farmers.—A few Solitary Instances. — Experiment is Better.—Cowpox due to Common Causes.—Jenner Denies Spontaneous Cowpox. —Invents Spurious.—Misleading Likeness to Horse-Grease Sores.—Horse-Grease the Origin of Cow- pox and Smallpox.—John Baker Inoculated with the Grease.— Circumstances of his Death.—Inoculations with Cowpox itself.—To the Fourth Remove.—Jenner goes to London.—Published.— Cline.—Jenner Omits the Test.—Summary of the Inquiry. pp. 49-77. CHAPTER IV. THE RECEPTION OF THE INQUIRY. Smallpox of the Cow Accepted.—The New Name Defended.—Pear- son s Objection.—Dr. John Sims and the Jacobs Case.—John Lawrence on The Filth and Nastiness of Cowpox.—^ Consciom
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