Cow-pock inoculation : The following facts are laid before the public for the encouragement of those, who entertain any doubt respecting the efficacy and success of vaccine inoculation ... / [John Theodore Archibald Reed].

  • Reed, John Theodore Archibald.
Date:
[1810?]
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Credit: Cow-pock inoculation : The following facts are laid before the public for the encouragement of those, who entertain any doubt respecting the efficacy and success of vaccine inoculation ... / [John Theodore Archibald Reed]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    o ] gqg “ nobody ever had the small-pox after it: Bui “ what an odd thing it is, that any body should think of u inoculating with it !” For my part I thought it very odd, these two facts bei ng so generally known, that no one should have at¬ tempted it sooner. I had no intention of proceeding in this practice beyond my own Parishes; but I was soon applied to by a cler¬ gyman, to whom I have been more than twenty years curate, to inoculate at Greens-Norton, near Towcester, the Small-Pox having broke out in two Families. I xcadily consented on condition that he would prepare the minds of the people, to whom 1 was but little known. In this he met with opposition, and in the result, about Five Hundred persons were inoculated with the Small- Fox, and Twenty-Eight by me, with the Cow-Pock. I started the same day as the hired Inoeulator. On the eighth I inspected the parties, and finding that they were all decidedly infected with the Cow-Pock, I desired them to give what assistance they could to the people, who were falling very fast with the Small-Fox, and in great distress for Nurses; Two Hundred, at one time, be¬ ing in a helpless condition. Of these Twenty Eight Pa¬ tients of mine, many slept with Small-Fox patients, and even with some, who died in a most dreadful condition. The neighbouring Villages were satisfied with this test, sD O ZD 7 and in the following month I inoculated more than One Thousand Persons, who were apprehensive, that a very great fair at Towcester on old May-day, would spread the Small-Po$ over the whole surrounding Country. On the application of Clergymen and other respectable Inhabitants, I have inoculated, within ten miles of my residence, upwards of Four Thousand Seven Hundred Persons, many in situations greatly exposed to infection. In the Autumn, 1804, the Small-Pox raging among the people employed at the tunnel of the Grand Junction Canal, I inoculated in the neighbouring towns of Stoke-* Bruern, Shuttlehanger, and Paulerspury, Five FLundred <md Seventy. In the Summer of 1805, I inoculated TwjO: