An inquiry concerning the history of the cowpox : principally with a view to supersede and extinguish the smallpox.

  • George Pearson
Date:
1798
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Credit: An inquiry concerning the history of the cowpox : principally with a view to supersede and extinguish the smallpox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    [ 9* ] doubt that the local affedtion might be produ- ced repeatedly. Neither did he certainly know that a perfon was fufceptible of the Smallpox, who had been conflitutionally affedted by the Cowpox. Mr. Rolph, in a letter to Dr. Beddoes, dated June 10th, 1795, communicated the following obfervations. Speaking of a man who could not be infedted, although he was repeatedly inoculated for the Smallpox, and although he lived in the fame room with another man who died of the Smallpox—Mr. Rolph fays, “ it is worthy * of remark, that this man had fome years before, a complaint incident to Cows, and commonly called the Cowpox ; a malady more unpleafant than dangerous. It is gene- rally received by contadl in milking. In the human fpecies, the complaint is fometimes lo- cal, at other times abforption takes place, and the glands in the courfe of the abforbents be- * See the queries of Dr. Beddoes, conc#rning inoculation, fubjoined to his tranflation of Gimbernat’s method of opera- ting for the Femoral Hernia.—London, Johnfon, 1795*
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