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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    r 26 ] main on the part fix hours*. It feerned to give the children but little uneafinefs, and effeclually an- fwered my intention in preventing the appearance of eryfipelas. Indeed it feemcd to do more, for in half an hour after its application, the indifpofition of the children ceafsd+. Thcfe precautions were perhaps unneceffary, as the arm of the third child, Mary Pead, which was fuffered to take its common courfe, fcabbed quickly, without any eryfipelas J. CASE XXIII. FROM this child's arm matter was taken and transferred to that of J. Barge, a boy of feven years old. He fickened on the eighth day, went through the difeafe with the ufual flight fymptoms, and without any inflammation on the arm beyond the common efflorefcence furrounding the puftule, an appearance fc. often feen in inoculated Small Pox. After the many fruitlefs attempts to give the Small Pox to thofe who had the Cow Pox, it did not appear neceffary nor was it convenient to me, to inoculate the whole ot thofe who had been the * Perhaps a few touches nvith the lapis fepticui would have proved equally efficacious. + What effcil -Mould a flmilar treatment produce in inoculation for the Small Fox ? % The fubfequent part of' th'uTreatife willfufficient- lj Jht<w the proper pratlicc in cafes of inflammation of the inoculated arm.