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.

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    ties endeavour as much as possible to hash up the matter, to stifle investigation, and attribute boldly all these horrid heast/i/ nezi! diseases to every thing but the real cause, name- ly. Coze-pox inoculation.* It is lamentable to be obliged, through principles of honour, to declare these important facts, in opposition to deception. IX. ■Cow pox inoculation no permanent or certain securiti/ against the Small Fox. THE most serious and alarming circumstance, exclusive of those already mentioned, is, that the Cow-pox inocu- lation is no certain or permanent Sjecurity against Small-pox infection.-t Not only those cases that have been published by Dr. ]VIoseley, Mr. Goldson, the case of Mr. Okey's children in ^dgwafe-road; those opposite to the Public-office, Bow- street, at the oyster shop ; the Oxford cases; those at Clap- ham, Battersea-fields, Mount street, York-mews, Adams'- mews. Paradise-street, North-street, Barlow-street, at Clap- ham, Mary-le-bqne-lane, Brook street, Charles-street,Oranger court, &c. &c. but innumerable other instances have already occurred, in which there are the most ample and irrefutable testimonies of children, who had been vaccinated receiving the Small Pox, from the Small-pox epidemic air sent by the Almighty, or from those attacked in the natural way, by actually respiring in the variolous air of those already in- fected. So that the vaccinated, however they may have withstood Small-pox inoculation, they are not proof against receiving the Small Pox by respiration^ or breathing in epidemic * A most dreadful case of this nature may be seen at the St. Mary-le-bone Infirmary, of which I have given the drawing at the head of this pamphlet. t Whoever reads the public papers, will perceive advertisements particularly of the venders of Vehio's Vegetable Syrup, recommending tliat remedy lor the - cure of Cow-pox impurities, eruptions, &c. and declaring the numerous appli- cations for that celebrated remedy to remove the horrid elFccts of Cow-pox in- oculation.