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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    [28 ] after the matter was applied, and afterwards I expofed him to the contagion of the Small Pox with as httle efFed^. CASE XIW Secondly, Mr. JAMES COLE, a Farmer in this parifh, had a difeafe from the fame fource as related in the pre^- ceding cafe, and fome years after was inoculated with variolous matter. He had a little pain in the axilla, and felt a flight indifpofition for three or four hours. A few eruptions Chewed themfelves on the forehead, but they very foon difappeared without advancing to maturation. * It is a remarkable fa61:, and well known to many, that we are frequently foiled in our endeavours to communicate the Small Pox by inoculation to blackfmiths, who in the country are farriers. They often, as in the above •a inftance, either refill the contagion entirely, or have the difeafe anomaloufly. Shall we not be able now to account for this on a rational principle ?