A prospect of exterminating the small-pox, being the history of the Variolae vaccinae, or kine-pox, commonly called the cow-pox : as it has appeared in England : with an account of a series of inoculations performed for the kine-pox, in Massachusetts / by Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D. ; fellow of the American Philos. Society.

  • Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846.
Date:
1800
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Credit: A prospect of exterminating the small-pox, being the history of the Variolae vaccinae, or kine-pox, commonly called the cow-pox : as it has appeared in England : with an account of a series of inoculations performed for the kine-pox, in Massachusetts / by Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D. ; fellow of the American Philos. Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and indeed to the human race at large, from the lif- covery of a mild diftemper that would ever after fr .1^. the conftitution from that terrible fcourge, the fmall- pox. My attention was not the lefs awakened by a previous impreflion that the fmall-pox came originally from the brute creation ; for all that I could recollect, of the hiftory of the famous Mahomet, and his fuc- eejfor, and of modern Arabia, cqnfpired to ftrength- en the idea that the fmall-pox came to the human race through the brute creation. Dr. George Pearson's book, which I received foon after that of Dr. Jenner's, confirmed in a fatis- factory manner the moll important part of Jennf.r's doctrine. As the ordinary mode of communicating even me- dical difcoveries in this country is by news-papers, I drew up the following account of the cow-pox, which was printed in the Columbian Centinel, March 12th, *799- SOMETHING CURIOUS IN THE MEDICAL LINE. EVERY body has heard of thofe diftempers, ac- companied with pocks or puftles, called the /mallpox, the chicken-pox and the fwine-pox, but few have ever heard of the cow-pox, or if you like the term better, the cow fmall-pox ; or to exprefs it in technical lan- guage, the variila vaccina. There is, however? fuch