Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians honorary physician to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and consulting physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

  • Samuel Gee
Date:
1908
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Credit: Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians honorary physician to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and consulting physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pox is simply small-pox occurring in the cow. And although he did not invent the term variolae equinae or horse small-pox, he could not have declared his opinions in this respect more strongly than he did when he went into some stables with his nephew, George Jenner, and, pointing to a horse with diseased heels, said, ‘ There is the source of small-pox.’ Mark, not merely ‘ There is small-pox ’, but ‘ There is the source of small-pox Indeed, he says much the same thing in the earliest pages of his book. Jenner’s opinions concerning horse-pox are by no means to be lightly set aside; and they seem to have become stronger as he became older. In his book he doubts whether the virus of grease, directly inoculated into man, can be relied upon as a preventive of small-pox. But his friend Baron, who knew him in after life, tells us that ‘ Dr. Jenner was in the practice of using equine matter [for inoculation] with complete success ’, and that grease ‘ when communicated to man is capable of affording protection against small- pox, even though it had never passed through the cow Here is a drawing ^ which shows the kind of ^ Series Ivii, No. 902, St. Bartliolomew’s Hospital Museum.