Cow-pox inoculation no security against small-pox infection / by William Rowley. To which are added, the modes of treating the beastly new diseases produced from cow pox, explained by two coloured copper-plate engravings, as cow-pox mange, cow-pox ulcers, cow-pox evil or abscess, cow-pox mortification, &c., with the author's certain, experienced, and successful mode of inoculating for the small pox, which now becomes necessary from cow-pox failure, &c.

  • Rowley, William, 1742 or 1743-1806.
Date:
1805
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Credit: Cow-pox inoculation no security against small-pox infection / by William Rowley. To which are added, the modes of treating the beastly new diseases produced from cow pox, explained by two coloured copper-plate engravings, as cow-pox mange, cow-pox ulcers, cow-pox evil or abscess, cow-pox mortification, &c., with the author's certain, experienced, and successful mode of inoculating for the small pox, which now becomes necessary from cow-pox failure, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    appearance, to tlie astonishment of all the world, in 1798*. IV. The iufectioHS Cow Pox being communicated or convei/ed from the grease in horses to cozes, and from theuce to man, is conveyed from one human being to another by Cow pox inoculation. COW-POX matter was procured. Numbers of human beings were inoculated. From those already vaccinated, matter sufficiently infectious was procured on the point of a lancet or a quillj &,c. with which many thousands, the vaccinators now say, millions were inoculated, and have passed through the Cow-pox. Thus the diseases of beasts, filthy in their very nature^ were conveyed to man, and from the race of man to one another, until most of the infan- tile subjects in every part of the globe partook of the dis- eased blood of brute beasts. The Smnll Pox is a visitatioa- ffom God ; but the Cow Pox is produced by presumptuous man : the former was what heaven ordained, the latter is, perhaps, a daring violation of our holy religion.-j- V. The Cow Pox not infectious, therefore superior to Small- pox Inoculation. IT is necessary to fairly and candidl}' state the assertFons of the most eminent Cow-pox inoculatovs. The strongest argument in favour of vaccination was, that Cow * Tlie ingenious Dr. Moselry, physician lo His Majestv's Royal Hospital of Invalids al Chelsea, says, The Cow-pox mmiia seized the people of England en masse in 1798. This experienced physician is highly meritorious in being the first who dared lo stem the torrent of vaccination fury as soon asil appeared. + It is God's command, that man shall not lie with any manner of beast— ;pot contaminate the form of the Creator with the brule, creation. Whether ■vaccination be agreeable to the will and ordinances of God, io a question worthy «f the consideration of the contemplative and learned nnuislcrs ol the gospel of Jesns Christ; whether it be impious and profane to wic^t out ot the haudV gf the Aliuighty the divine dispensations of Providcitce ?