On the origin of the vaccine inoculation / by Edward Jenner.

  • Edward Jenner
Date:
1863
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Credit: On the origin of the vaccine inoculation / by Edward Jenner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ftruck with the idea that it might be practicable to propagate the difeafe by inoculation, after the manner of the Small Pox, firft - V from the Cow, and finally from one human being to another. I anxioufly waited fome time for an opportunity of putting this theory to the teft. At length the period arrived. The firft ex¬ periment was made upon a lad of the name of Phipps, in whole arm a little Vaccine Virus was inferted, taken from the hand of a young woman who had been accidentally infeCted by a cow. Notwithftanding the refemblance which the puftule, thus ex¬ cited on the boy’s arm, bore to variolous inoculation, yet as the indifpofition attending it was barely perceptible, I could fcarcely perfuade myfelf the patient was fecure from the Small Pox. However, on his being inoculated fome months afterwards, it proved that he was fecure.* This Cafe infpired me with confi¬ dence ; and as foon as I could again furnifh myfelf with Virus from the Cow, I made an arrangement for a feries of inocula- * This boy was inoculated nearly at the expiration of five years afterwards with variolous matter, but no other efFedt was produced beyond a local inflammation around the pundtured part upon the arm. tions.
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