An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolæ vaccinæ, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the cow pox / by Edward Jenner.

  • Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823.
Date:
1798
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Credit: An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolæ vaccinæ, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the cow pox / by Edward Jenner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 3^ 3 tHis young woman, but was taken from that of another, and is annexed for the purpofe of reprefenting the malad|r after it has newly appeared, €J.SE XVII. THE more accurately to obferve the progrefs of the infeftion, I felefted a healthy boy, about eight years old, for the purpofe of inoculation for the Cow Pox. The matter was taken from a fore on the hand of a dairymaid*, who was infefted by her mafter's cows, and it was inferted, on the 14th of May, 1796, into the arm of the boy by means of two fuperficial incifions, barely penetrating the cutis, each about half an inch long. * From the fore on the hand of Sarah Nelmes. — See the preceding cafe and the plate. On