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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    \ ™ ] fhiverlngs fucceeded by heat, lafiitude and general pains in the limbs. A (ingle paroxyfm terminated the difeafe ; for within twenty-four hours they were free from general indifpofition, nothing re- maining bat the fores on their hands. Hayncs and Viro-oe, who had gone through the Small Pox frorrf inoculation, defcribed their feelings as very fimilar to thofe which afFefted them on fickening with that malady. \V her ret never had had the Small Pox. Haynes was daily employed as one of the milkers at the farm, and the difeafe began to (hew itfelf a- mong the cows about ten days after he firft aflifted in wafliing the mare's heels. Their nipples became fore in the ufual way, with bluifb puftules ; but as remedies were early applied they did not ulcerate lo any extent. CASE XV1II. JOHN BAKER, a child of five years old, was inoculated March 16, 1798, with matter taken from a puftule on the hand of Thomas Virgoe, one of the fervants who had been infecled from the mare's heels. He became ill on the fixth day with fvmptoms fimilar to thofe excited by Cow-Pox mat- ter.' On the eighth day he was free from indifpo- fition. There was fome variation in the appearance of the puftule on the arm. Although it fomewhat re- fembled a Small -Pox puftule, yet its fimilitude was not fo confpicuous as when excited by matter from the nipple of the cow, or when the matter has paf- fed from thence through the medium of the human