Reports on a series of innoculations for the variolæ vaccinæ, or cow-pox : with remarks and observations on this disease, considered as a substitute for the small-pox / By William Woodville.

  • William Woodville
Date:
1799
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Credit: Reports on a series of innoculations for the variolæ vaccinæ, or cow-pox : with remarks and observations on this disease, considered as a substitute for the small-pox / By William Woodville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'iated with the matter of Cow-pox, and on the fifth day afterwards with variolous matter, were William Harris, William Bunker, and James Crouch. ••■EIGHTH CASE. William Harris, twenty-one years of age, oOf a tall and flender make, and of a delicate * ,conftitution, was inoculated January 24, with ] the naatter of Cow-pox, taken from th-e arm jof Sarah Rice, who received the difeafe by milking the cow;s. 3d'day. The inoculated part was evidently elevated and inflamed. ^ I ^5th day. It advanced to vefication, and a fen- fation of itching was perceived in the part : he was this day inoculated was variolous matter. 9th day. The tumour of the firfl: inoculation prefents prominent callous edges, with but very.little rednefsj its centre is -deprielTed, ^nd contains a lymphatic fluid: he I -jr.l perceives