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A treatise on the cow-pox; containing the history of vaccine inoculation, and an account of the various publications which have appeared on that subject. In Great Britain, and other parts of the world / by John Ring.

  • Ring, John, 1752-1821.
Date:
1801-1803
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the cow-pox; containing the history of vaccine inoculation, and an account of the various publications which have appeared on that subject. In Great Britain, and other parts of the world / by John Ring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He added, that, in order to ascertain this point more clearly, he had directed a cow to be inoculated with variolous matter; and, if it produced any sup- the vaccine matter, and communicate the result. As no farther communication from Dr. Turton has ‘ An able answer to the letter of Dr. Turton ap- peared in a subsequent number of the same work; written by a gentleman, whom I suspect from his initials, and the knowledge of the practice which he displays, to be a relation of Dr. Jenner. identity with the small-pox. It proves, that such not seen much of the distemper: the author of that letter had seen the disease resuscitated above thirty times in the human subject; nevertheless it still re- tained its original form, , A considerable part of the matter now in use, has been preserved, by reiterated inoculations in the yet, notwithstanding it has undergone so many suc- efficacy no diminutation.