The origin of the vaccine inoculation / [Edward Jenner].

  • Edward Jenner
Date:
1801
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Credit: The origin of the vaccine inoculation / [Edward Jenner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ to ftruck with the idea that it might be practicable to propagate the difeafe by inoculation, after the manner of the Small Pox, firft from the Cow, and finally from one human being to another, I anxioufly waited fome time for an opportunity of putting this periment was made upon a lad of the name of Phipps, in whofe arm a little Vaccine Virus was inferted, taken from the hand of -a young woman who had been accidentally infected by a cow, Notwithttanding the refemblance which 'the puftule, thus ex- cited onthe boy’s arm, bore to variolous inoculation, yet as the indifpofition attending it was barely perceptible, I could {carcely perfuade myfelf the patient was fecure from the Small Pox. However, on his being inoculated fome months afterwards, it proved that he was fecure*. This Cafe infpired me with confi- * ‘This boy was inoculated nearly at the expiration of five years afterwards with variolous matter, but no other effeét was produced beyond a local inflammation around the punctured part upon the arm. ‘ tions,
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