An inquiry concerning the history of the cowpox : principally with a view to supersede and extinguish the smallpox.
- George Pearson
- Date:
- 1798
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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 [ 9 ] for the Small Pox, who had previoufly had the Cow Pox, very few took the infe&ion ; and fuch as did, he had great room to believe were themfeJves deceived, in regard to their having had the Cow Pox.” I am deeply indebted for feveral letters on the fubjed, to the Rev. Hen. Jerome de Sails, D. D. *, “ 1 have heard,” fays he, “ a good deal of the Cow Pox in this country. I have given a copy of your queftions to Mr. Heurtley, and another to Sir William Lee, and I dare fay, after a time this country will produce much information rela- tive to the Cow Pox. I have found that in this parifh, (Wing) this diforder raged in one farm, but did not get beyond it, three years ago. A man wuo now works with me, was emploved with three others in milking the Cows. None but himfelf had had the Small Pox, all three had the Cow Pox, but he quite efcaped it. One of thefe three is now in the parifh, and I will have him inoculated for the Small Pox. He was much ftruck with the refemblance of the fymptoms to thofe he had lately experienced in the Small Pox, Mr. Thomas Rhodes, a refpeflable farmer and dairy-man at Abbots-Aflon, (a parifh adjoining t Dr. de Salis’ Letters, Wing, Bucks, July 20th, 25th, and 29th, 1798. C](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21514999_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
