Facts, for the most part unobserved, or not duly noticed, respecting variolus contagion / By Edward Jenner ... London: Printed by S. Cosnell, 1808.

  • Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823.
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[Reprinted, without alteration, 1811]
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Credit: Facts, for the most part unobserved, or not duly noticed, respecting variolus contagion / By Edward Jenner ... London: Printed by S. Cosnell, 1808. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •4 and the other child sickened about the same time, and likewise had 4 a plentiful eruption.’ “ These are not brought forward as uncommon occurrences, but as exemplifications of the human system being susceptible of the vario- lous contagion, although it has been previously rendered sensible of its action.” The following extract is taken from (C A Continuation of Facts and Observations on the Variolae Vaccinae,” published in 1800, page 177. 1 * 44 In my former treatises on this subject, I have remarked that the human constitution retains its susceptibility of the small-pox conta- gion (both from effluvia and contact), after previously feeling its in- fluence. In further corroboration of this declaration, many facts have been communicated to me by various correspondents. I shall -select one of them, extracted from a letter from Mr. Miles. 4 As I conceive what I am now about to communicate to be of some ‘ importance, I imagine it cannot be uninteresting to you, especially 4 as it will serve to corroborate your assertion, that the human system 4 is susceptible of the variolous contagion, although it has previously 4 been made sensible of its action, > In November 1793 I was desired 4 to inoculate a person with the small-pox. I took the variolous 4 matter from a child under the disease in the natural way, who had 4 a large burden of distinct pustules. The mother of the child being 4 desirous of seeing my method of communicating the disease by 4 inoculation.