Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan.

  • Jordan, Henry J.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    manent cicatrices, and attended by fever, which fever is rekindled into secondary fever ” when the pustules are matured. Cow-pox is also transmissible by contagion to the hands of the persons employed in milking the diseased cows, and the transmitted disease is often severe, and attended not only with considerable febrile dis- turbance, but with subcutaneous sloughing, and with inflamed vessels and glands. Dr. Jenner was led to his grand discovery of vaccination as a means of preventing small-pox by a knowledge of the popular belief in the Gloucester dairy-farms, that persons who had contracted cow-pox by milking were thereby rendered proof against the contagion of small- pox. After ascertaining the correctness of this popular belief, by finding that persons who had contracted cow-pox in this manner were, as a rule, incapable of receiving small-pox by inocu- lation, Dr. Jenner set himself to inquire whether persons could be made equally proof against small-pox by the artificial production of cow-pox. His first case of vaccination was performed on May 14th, 1796, upon a boy of eight years old, James Phipps by name, with virus taken from the hand of a milk-maid, called