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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    impreffed in the moft unfavourable manner, pro- ducing extenfive inflammations and fuppurations on the hands; and as it clearly appears that this difeafe leaves the conftitution ^^^^^^^ ^^..n^g^fe^ fecurity from the infedion of the Small-pox, may we not infer that a mode of Inoculation may be introduced preferable to that at prefent adopted, efpecially among thofe families, which, from previous circumftances we may judge to be predif- pofed to have the difeafe unfavourably ? It is an excefs in the number of puftules which we chiefly dread in the Small-pox ; but, in the Cow-pox, no puftules appear, nor does it feem poflible for the contagious matter to produce the difeafe from effluvia, or by any other means than contaft, and that probably not fmiply between the virus and the cuticle; fo that a fmgle individual in a family ' K 2 might V