The origin of the vaccine inoculation / [Edward Jenner].

  • Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823
Date:
1801
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Credit: The origin of the vaccine inoculation / [Edward Jenner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ox f -} THE ORIGIN ■j r. OF THE VACCINE INOCULATION. My inquiry into the nature of the Cow Pox commenced up- i wards of twenty-five years ago. My attention to this fingular difeafe was firft excited by obferving, that among thofe whom in the country I was frequently called upon to inoculate, many refilled every effort to give them the Small Pox. Thefe patients I found had undergone a difeafe they called the Cow Pox, con- traded by milking Cows affeded with a peculiar eruption on their teats. On inquiry, it appeared that it had been known B among