Some recent cases of small pox subsequent to vaccination. To which are added, experiments to ascertain the effect of vaccinating in the hand in imitation of the casual disease ; with facts, and observations on the effect of eruptive diseases in removing the security derived from cow pox / [William Goldson].

  • Goldson, William
Date:
1805
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Credit: Some recent cases of small pox subsequent to vaccination. To which are added, experiments to ascertain the effect of vaccinating in the hand in imitation of the casual disease ; with facts, and observations on the effect of eruptive diseases in removing the security derived from cow pox / [William Goldson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    expofure to variolous inllucnce, pafs through the whole of their lives without infcdion? I KNOW this infufccptibility has been fup- pofed to have arifen, from the contagious prin- ciple having, at fome period or other, produ- ced fever, which had lo far adimilated the fluids as to prevent its future a6fion. But there have been repeated inflances of perfons, e(][ually as much expofed to infc6lion, who have palled through great part of their lives without taking the difeafe, but who have been found to be fufceptible of it at a more advan- ced period. This peculiarity can only be folved on the principle of the'former refilling power in the fkin having been diminilhed or perhaps totally dellroyed by fome unknown caufe or other, but which had never been ap- plied to it before. In what this property in the flein to refih: fmall pox confills, when not proceeding from the aflion of fmall pox itfelf, will for ever, perhaps,remain concealed. It is one of thofein- fcrutable operations of nature, which is placed beyond the fphere of our narrow capacities. In Q