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 30 ] Cow Pox, and being acquainted alfo with the effefts of that difeafe on the human conftitution, aflured him that he never need to fear the infe6lion of the Small Pox; but this alTertion proved fallacious, for, on being expofed to the infeftion upwards of twenty years afterwards, he caught tht difeafe, which took its regular courfe in a very mild way. There certainly was a difference perceptible, although it is not eafy to defcribe it, in the general appearance of the puftules from that which we commonly fee. Other prac- titioners, who vifited the patient at my requeft, agreed with me in this point, though there was no room left for fufpicion as to the reality of the difeafe, as I inoculated fome of his family from the puftules, who had the Small Pox, with its ufual appearances, in confequence-