Cheap tract on the cow-pox. A plain statement of facts, in favour of the cow-pox, intended for circulation through the middle and lower classes of society / [John Thomson].

  • Thomson, John, active 1809.
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1809
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Credit: Cheap tract on the cow-pox. A plain statement of facts, in favour of the cow-pox, intended for circulation through the middle and lower classes of society / [John Thomson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the Small-pox, unless the Cow-pox goes regularly on paft the twelfth day without check or change. It is important to know this. Upon the whole, with the operation of the causes juft mentioned, and allowing every thing to miftakes, negligence, and millatement, it is calculated that iailures have occurred only as one to eight hundred. Let it never be forgotten, that of those mocidated for the. Small-pox^ in the most javourablt circuinstances, one in three hundred die(f,, so that the deaths from Small-pox^ compared with the failures irorn Cow pox^ are nearly three to one. CHAPTER VI. General observations on the Cow-pox. \ This subject has occupied Dr. thirty years. He began to enqu he tried the inoculation of It. In 1798, ho submitted his dis¬ covery of it to the public. In 1799. it was sent to America, and given extenfively to the Whites and Indians. The Canadian Indians came down the country many hundred miles for this * blefling,’ thus whole tribes were secured from the dreadful slaughter of the Small-pox. In the Eaft Indies, in the Britifh Settlements, the Inoculation has been universal. The Hindoos, from their religious vener-ation of the cow, eagerly adopted it. In Ceylon, by means of the Cow-pox, the Small-pox has been exterminated, and the Small-pox Hospitals have been converted into Barracks. In Lucknow, the average number of deaths annually from the Small-pox was bx hundred and feventy, but in 180^, the year aher the introduction of the Cow-pox, the number was reduced to seventy-five. The Cow-pox has alfo been introduced extenfively into the crowded population of China. In 1801, it was sent to the Continent, along the Shores of the Mediterranean, ' to Germany and Rufiia. In Vienna, the number of deaths troin the Small-pox was eight hundred and thirty-five, in the year 1801. In i802„ alter the introduction of the Cow-pox, which was gene¬ rally adopted, the number of deaths from Small-pox was fixty-one. In 1803, it was reduced to twenty-seven. In i8oq, only two died of the Small-pox ; so that eight hundred and thirty-three lives are saved annually by the Cow-pox, in that city alorte. In Ruflia, the Emprefs Dowager ordered the firft child that was inoculated with the Cow-pox, to be called Vaccinojfy and settled a penfion upon it. In Turkey, Lord Bruce, the infant son of Lord Elgin, the Britifh Ambassador,, was the firft inoculated for the Cow-pox; soon afterwards an infant of the favourite of the Grand Seignor ; and then a house was opened in Conftantinople, for the public inoculation of the Cow-pox. It has been already stated that the average annual number of Jenner’s attention more than, ire into it in 1777. In 1788*