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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    Sarah Nelmes, who had caught cow-pox in the ordinary way. On the 1st of July follow- ing, this boy was inoculated in several places with small-pox matter, without receiving the disease. This was the beginning of vaccination, and this boy, James Phipps, has the distinction of being the source from which proceeds the vaccine matter used in vaccination ever since. Speculating upon the nature and origin of small-pox, Dr. Jenner was at first disposed to think that this disease had its origin in an affection of the heels of horses, called “ the grease •” for he found that the two diseases pre- vailed together, and that the cows chiefly affected were those which had been milked hy persons who had charge of the horses. On subsequent inquiry, however, he found that cow-pox could originate independently; and that the affection of horses from which it was now and then contracted was not “ the grease,” which is a common vesicular affection, but an affection of which the eruption and general symptoms were perfectly analogous to cow-pox. He found, further, that there is a close analogy between cow-pox and small-pox. Thus, an epidemic of small-pox is often accompanied by