History and pathology of vaccination / by Edgar M. Crookshank.

  • Crookshank, Edgar M. (Edgar March), 1858-1928.
Date:
1889
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Credit: History and pathology of vaccination / by Edgar M. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    who had convinced himself that Cow Pox arose “ spontaneously ” in the cow, and had never been able in all his practical investigations to find any other explanation for its origin, was nevertheless so in- fluenced by Baron’s teachings, that when he succeeded in raising a vesicle on the cow by inoculation of human variola, a vesicle which had the physical characters of the vaccine vesicle, he was led to believe that he had succeeded in producing Cow Pox by inoculation of human Small Pox. Thus, Baron’s historical researches, and Ceely’s misinterpreted in- vestigations, were summed up by Baron in the words, “ Vaccination is now, indeed, placed upon a rock.” There was not only no hesitation in substituting the term Cow Small Pox for the original Coiv Pox, but although outbreaks of Cow Pox were discovered perfectly independently of any human variola, Baron’s historical researches, Ceely and Badcock’s experiments, and the incidents related by Waterhouse and Bree, led to the theory of Cow Small Pox, being regarded as an established fact. In 1857, vaccination obtained further support from the Blue Book on vaccination compiled by Simon. It would be out of place, here, to analyse that report, but it remains as evidence of the extra- ordinary hold which the Jennerian doctrine had upon the minds of even distinguished sanitarians. It is, however, much to be regretted that the teachings and