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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    peared at adjoining as in the at a fair ■ Farmer, )f whom, ^ nces), bem, ex- 3ugh the he cows on their )receded no com- : bv the ))' thofe fined to ^nce, to C 19 ] February the 13th, 1797,1 availed myfelf of an opportunity of inoculating William Rodway, the fervant man above al- luded to. Variolous matter was inferted into both his arms; in the right by means of fuperficial incifions, and into the left by flight punftures into the cutis. Both were perceptibly inflamed on the third day. After this the inflammation about the punctures foon died away, but a fmall appearance of eryfipelas was manifefl; about the edges of the incifions till the eighth day, when a little uneaflnefs was felt for the fpace of half an hour in the right axilla. The inflamma- tion then haftily difappeared without producing the mofl: diftant mark of afFeflion of the fyftem. ebruaiy