An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae : 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 ... ; from the second London edition.

  • Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823.
Date:
1802
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Credit: An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae : 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 ... ; from the second London edition. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C «o ] CASE FI. IT is a fact fo well known among oqr Dairy Ear- ners, that thofe who have had the Small Pox either efcape the Cow Pox or aredifpofed to have it (light- ly ; that as foon as the complaint (hews itfelf among the cattle, afMants arc procured, if poffible, who are thus rendered lefs fufceptible of it, otherwife the bufmefs of the farm could fcarcely go forward* In the month of May, 1796, the Cow Pox broke out at Mr. Baker's, a Farmer who lives near this place. The difeafe was communicated by means of a Cow which was purchafed in an infected Hate at a neighboring fair, and not one of the Farmer's Cows (confifting of thirty) which were at that time milked efcaped the contagion. The family confift- ed of a man fervant, two dairy, maids, and a fer- vant boy, who, with the Farmer himfelf, were twice a day employed in milking the cattle.—- The whole of this family, except Sarah Wynne, one of the dairy maids, had gone through the Small Pox. The confequence was, that the Farmer and the fervant boy efcaped the infection of the Cow Pox entirely, and the fervant man and one of the maid fervants had each of them nothing more than a fore on one of their fingers, which produced no cJiforder in the fyftem. But the other dairy maid, Sarah Wynne, who never had the Small Pox, did not cfcape in (o eafy a manner. She caught the complaint from the cows, and was altered with the fymptoms defcribed in the 5th page, in fo violent a degree, that (he was confined to her bed, and