Account of the introduction of the cow pox into India / [by George Keir].
- Keir, George.
- Date:
- 1803
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Account of the introduction of the cow pox into India / [by George Keir]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ « ] to tlie vaccine inoculation. Patients under vaccine inoculation have occafionally Ihewn flight crup-« tions of pimples or prickly heat, at the appearance of which they were alarmed, but thefe have foon died away, and feemed to me to be only cafual eruptions, which are fo common at all times in this country, and muft: nccelTarily be more frequent when the patient labours under any febrile affec- tion. Nine or ten patients who have paffed thro’ the Cow-pox on this Ifland, have already been fubjec- led ro the experiment of inoculation with fmall pox matter, and all of them have perfedlly refifted the adlion of that virus, fo that the faff, that a perfon that has paffed thro’ the Cow-pox, is ever afterwards fecure againfl the expofure to fmall pox cantagion, may now be conflder’d -s fully demonflrated in this country, as well as in fiurope. The exiflence of the natural fmall pox, has how- ever alfo given us an opportunity of feeing verified an obfervation of Dr. Woodvillc’s, that alrho’ a pa- tient that has pafled rhro’ the Cow pox is for ever afterwards fecure againfl: the eflccfl: of expofure to fmall pox contagion, yet tliat Inoculation for the former difeafe, will not anticipate the flnal! pox, <jr prepent](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28707631_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
