A manual of animal vaccination : preceded by considertions on vaccination in general / by E. Warlomont, ... translated and edited by Arthur J. Harries.

  • Warlomont, Evariste W., 1820-1891.
Date:
1885
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Credit: A manual of animal vaccination : preceded by considertions on vaccination in general / by E. Warlomont, ... translated and edited by Arthur J. Harries. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    havintr dressed the heels of a liorse afflicted with 'the grease' has not taken care to wash his Inmds, and may commence milking the cows, upon the nipples of which his fingers have deposited some particles of infectious matter which has remained adherent to them. When this is the case, a disease is communicated to the cows and to the maid-servants, which spreads throughout the farm to such an extent that the entire herd and all the servants feel the consequences. Tliis passage states explicitly that Jenner admitted as the origin of vaccine a disease of the horse's heel which, transmitted to the cow by germs spilt upon the hands of men who have just di'essed diseased horses, is transformed into cow-pox. And after having called this disease the grease, he has given it later the name of sore heels, an ulcerating disorder of the heels, which it will henceforth retain. Jenner believed then that the source of cow-pox is a special morbid matter, developing itself upon the horse, and upon him alone. I am well persuaded, writes he, that this disease never develops upon cows, at any rate, unless they have been milked by some one who at the same time had charge of a horse afflicted with 'sore heels,' or unless this disease (the cow-pox) had been conveyed to a herd by a cow already infected with it, or by a sei-\-ant who was already attacked by it. * 8. What then is the grease T It is the disease termed by French veterinary surgeons * Ed. Jenner, An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variola Vaccinre, a disease discovered in some of tlieWestern Counties of England, particularly Gloucestersliire, and known by the name of Cow-pox. London, 179S, in 410, with plates.