Cow-pox inoculation no security against small-pox infection. : To which are added, the modes of treating the beastly new diseases produced from cow pox ... With the author's certain, experienced, and successful mode of inoculating for the small pox, which now becomes necessary from cow-pox failure, &c.

  • Rowley, William, 1742-1806.
Date:
1806
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Credit: Cow-pox inoculation no security against small-pox infection. : To which are added, the modes of treating the beastly new diseases produced from cow pox ... With the author's certain, experienced, and successful mode of inoculating for the small pox, which now becomes necessary from cow-pox failure, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. ■ . -Pog' Introduction ....... lu Proposition I. Mankind have always been liable to suffer from thci visionary conceits of hypothetical invaders of science, and wild opposers of established expe- rience • . • • • • • • 1 I. The safety and certainty of Small pox inocula- tion, established by one hundred years successful experience—therefore Cow Pox unnecessary * 4 II. Vehement conduct of Cow-pox inoculators . ibid III. The origin of Cow Pox was from the ulcerous, stinking, horrid disorder, called Grease in horses 7 IV. The infectious Cow Pox being communicated or conveyed from the grease in horses to cows, and from thence to man, is conveyed from one human being to another by Cow-pox inoculation 8 V. The Cow Pox not infectious, therefore superior to Snvall-pox inoculation . . . . 9 VI. 'Seven years already given for trial, experience, and improvement . . . ^ ^ ibid VII. A few very eminent practitioners, and a num- ber of the inexperienced, gave their sanction to the Cow-pox inoculation, perhaps too precipi- tately 10 VIII. Though some died under the Cow-pox inocu- lation, yet in general mild, when eruptions, - ulcers, &c. be excepted, which followed the Cow Pox IX. Cow-pox inoculation no permanent or certain security against the Small Pox .... 12 X. Though it be affirmed, that numbers inoculated with Small-pox matter soon after vaccination have resisted the infection; yet this is no proof of security; for many have been infected by the natural Small Pox, after Cow'-pox inocu- lation 14