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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    [18] In the fummer of the year 1796 the Cow Pox appeared at the Farm of Mr. Andrews, a coniiderable dairy adjoining to the town of Berkeley. It was communicated, as in the preceding inftance, by an infe6led cow purchafed at a fair in the neighbourhood. The family confifted of the Farmer^ his wife, two fons, a man and a maid fervant; all of whom, except the Farmer (who was fearful of the confequences), bore a part in milking the cows. The whole of them, ex- clufive of the man fervant, had regularly gone through the Small Pox; but in this cafe no one who milked the cows efcaped the contagion. All of them had fores upon their hands, and fome degree of general indifpofition, preceded by pains and tumours in the axillae : but there was no com- parifon in the feverity of the difeafe as it was felt by the fervant man, who had efcaped the Small Pox, and by thofe of the family who had not, for, while he was confined to his bed, they were able, without much inconvenience, to follow their ordinary bufinefs. February