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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    t *I ] tendered incapable for feveral days of purfuing her ordinary vocations in the farm. March 28th, 1797, I inoculated this girl, and carefully rubbed the variolous matter into two flight incifions made upon the left arm. A little inflam- mation appeared in the ufual manner around the parts where the matter was inferted, but fo early as the fifth day it vanimed entirely without produ- cing any effect on the fyftem. CASE VII. ALTHOUGH the preceding hiftory pretty- Clearly evinces that the conftitution is far Iefs fuf- ceptible of the contagion of the Cosv Pox after it has felt that of the Small Pox, and although in ge- neral, as I have obferved, they who have had the Small Pox, and are employed in milking cows which are infected with the Cow Pox, either efcape the diforder, or have fores on the hands without feel- ing any general indifpofition, yet the animal econo- my is fubjett tofome variation in this refpecl, which the following relation will point out. In the fummsr of the year 1796 the Cow Pox ap- peared at the Farm of Mr. Andrews, a confiderab'e dairy adjoining to the town of Berkeley. It was communicated, as in the preceding inftar.ee, by an infecled cow purchafed at a fair in the neighborhood. The family confillcd of the Farmer, his wife, two fons, a man and a maid fervant ; all of whom, ex- cept the Farmer (who was fearful of the confequcn^ ees) bore a part in miiking the cows. The whole