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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    the arm of the third child, Mary Pead, which was fufFered to take its common courfe, fcabbed quickly, without any eryfipelas. CASE XXIII. FROM this child's arm matter was taken and transferred to that of J. Barge, a boy of feven years old. He fickened on the 8th day, went through the difeafe with the ufual flight fymptoms, and without any inflammation on the arm beyond the common efflorefcence furrounding the pufl:ule, an appearance fo often feen in inoculated Small-pox. After the many fruitlefs attempts to give the Small-pox to thofe who had had the Cow-pox, it did not appear necef- fary, nor was it convenient to me, to inoculate the w^hole of thofe who had been the fubjefts of thefe late trials; yet I thought it right to fee the efFefts of variolous matter on fome of them, particularly William Summers, the firfl: of thefe patients who had been infefted with matter taken from