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

Date:
1801
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Credit: Observations on the cow-pock / by John Coakley Lettsom... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    god-like countenance imprefled by the Cre- ator, an objedt of compafsion, if not of dif- guft. I contemplate, therefore, with medical pride, and notlefs with national gratitude, the name and difco very of Dr. Edward Jenner*; by . * AlthouSh the Cow-pock had long Vince been found by incidental experience a fecurity againft the fmall-pox, it had never been applied to any beneficial purpofe, till the genius o Jenner difcnminated its powers, and introduced it into practice, as a permanent fecurity againft the variolous infec- t.on This preventive quality of the vaccine fluid was cer- tainly known even to fcientific profeflional men many years ago; ut, ftrange as it may now appear, no one till Jenner promulgated his difcovery had ever improved that know- by appl^inK ^ to the procefs of inoculation. About hafeitelT” aS°7Vhen Dl’’ Ar0hei‘ Was the PMcian of the fid L V 7 °“’ Ca“larine Wilkins> »• Titchenor, fiorn Cncklade, who had h,d the Cow k n equcnce of milking cows, came to her brother in Lon- ceTta- W ierC f 15 U°W rcfident') being defirous of af- upo; “* W ether this Circumftance could be depended tal for Lr TmiVe °f Ule fmall'P°X’ fGIlt * the hofpi- from Sr. A-7™’ ^ fhe.received tlie variolous matter and the ftmlU^’ againft wl)ich> however. Hie was proof, no advantage was dl C°U'd DOt be communicated i but was derived from this fad. .tionertld^he “d ^ ^ pra£li- p tal fo1 ln°culation owes much of its importance is 2