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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    I l >°2 ] Abftraft of a Letter from Mr. Fewfer, Surgeon in Thornbury, dated October nth, 1798, to Mr. Ralph, Surgeon in Peckham. t “ In the fpring of the year 1768 I came to live at Thornbury, where I have refided ever fince. In that very year, from the following occur- rence, I became well acquainted with the dif- eafe called Cowpox. The late Mr. Grove and myfelf formed a connection with Mr. Sutton, the celebrated inpculator ; and to inoculate for the Smallpox, we took a houfe at Buckover. We found in this practice, that a great num- ber of patients could not be infeCled with the Smallpox poifon, notwithftanding repeated ex- pofure under mod favourable circumftances for taking the difeafe. At length the caufe of the failure was difcovered from the cafe of a farmer who was inoculated feveral times ineffectually, yet he a flu red us he had never fuffered the Smallpox, but, fays he, ‘ I have had the Cow- pox lately to a violent degree, if that's any odds' We took the hint, and, on inquiry, found that all thofe who were uninfeCtable, had undergone the Cowpox. I communicated this faCl to a medical fociety, of which I was then a mem-
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