A continuation of facts and observations relative to the variolae vaccinae, or cow pox / by Edward Jenner.

  • Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823
Date:
1800
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Credit: A continuation of facts and observations relative to the variolae vaccinae, or cow pox / by Edward Jenner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    probable that the general introduction of the Small Pox into Europe has not been among the moft conducive means in ex- citing that formidable foe to health? Having attentively watched the effeCts of the Cow Pox in this refpeCt, I am happy in being able to declare, that the difeafe does not appear to have the leaft tendency to produce this deftruCtive malady. The fcepticifm that appeared even among the moft enlightened of medical men when my fentiments on the important fubjeCt of the Cow Pox were firft promulgated, wras highly laudable. To have admitted the truth of a doCtrine, at once fo novel and fo unlike any thing that ever had appeared in the Annals of Medicine, without the teft of the moft rigid fcrutiny, would have bordered upon temerity; but now, when that fcrutiny has taken place, not only among ourfelves but in the firft profeflional circles in Europe, and when it has been uniformly found in fuch abundant inftances that the human frame, when once it has felt the influence of the genuine Cow Pox in the way that has been defcribed, is never afterwards at any period of its exiftence aflailable by the Small Pox, may I not with perfeCt confidence F congratulate