Observations on the cow-pock / By John Coakley Lettsom.

  • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
Date:
1801
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Credit: Observations on the cow-pock / By John Coakley Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1. Becaufe the Cow-pock is a milder difeafe. It occafions but little pain or fever, and is not followed by any of the painful and dangerous complaints, which are often produced by the fmall-pox. 2. Becaufe the infection of the Cow-pock cannot be communicated by the breath or perfpiration; whereas there is always danger that a perfon, who has even the inoculated fmall-pox, will communicate the difeafe to others; and in this manner the inoculation of one perfon has often occafioned the lofs of a great number of lives. We therefore advife all thofe, who regard the health and life of their children, the fafety of their friends and neighbours, or the good of the community at large, to avail themfelves of the opportunity now offered to them of preventing, by eafy and certain means, one of the moft loathfome and fatal difeafes to which the human body is fubiecSt. J Phyficians. John Pearson, Surgeon. ON GX3I Robert Willan, T. A. Murray,