An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolæ vaccinæ, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the cow pox / by Edward Jenner.

  • Edward Jenner
Date:
1798
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Credit: An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolæ vaccinæ, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the cow pox / by Edward Jenner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    c ] 1 5' I ''■4. i I i I i I' I t 1 1 1 I I I I 1 s I i I f f The Wolf, difarmed of ferocity, is now pillowed in the lady's lap *. The Cat, the little Tyger of our ifland, whofe natural home is the foreft, is equally domefticated and carelTed. The Cow, the Hog, the Sheep, and the Horfe, are all, for a variety of purpofes, brought under his care and dominion. There is a difeafe to which the Horfe, from his ftate of domeftication, is frequently fubjea. The Farriers have termed it the Greafe. It is an inflam- ma'tion and fwelling in the heel, from which iffues matter polTeffing properties of a very peculiar kind, which feems capable of generating a difeafe in the Human Body (after it has undergone the modification which I fliall prefently fpeak of), which bears fo ftrong arefemblance to the^Small Pox, that I think it hishlv ' probable it may be the fource of that difeafe* * The late Mr. John Hunter proved, by experiments, that the Dog is the Wolf in a degenerated ftate. • ^