Observations on the cow-pock / by John Coakley Lettsom...

Date:
1801
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Credit: Observations on the cow-pock / by John Coakley Lettsom... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE COW-POCK. 25 to his coadjutor in vaccine inoculation (my valuable friend. Dr. Waterhoufe), with his ufual liberality, his ample and decifive ideas on the fubject, alfo favoured me with the following remarks. “ I am extremely obliged to you, for the perufal of Dr. Waterhoufe’s letters; and not a little pleafed to obferve that the doctor coincides in opinion with me, ref- pecting the fuppofed degeneracy of the vac- cine matter. If inoculators would be atten- tive to this (which I lay down as a golden rule in vaccine inoculation), never to ufe the virus ajtei the formation of the efflorefcence around 16 Pylule> they never, or fcarcely ever would experience difappointment. I never’ any one inftance, faw a puftu]e formetJ V,,'US’ 'aken - this early ftate of its ion, and transferred immediately to the •lnt : 11 Peri° ft'!ly Vufceptible of its adtion, tha; was not properly characterized, in other is the icie'nce'of fPUri°US' H°'V eafy t,lcn 1 ” ,’i of true Cow. pool-. »opo,odofoli„gU„tir„lllld treat-