Answers to all the objections hitherto made against cow-pox / by Joseph Adams.

Date:
1897
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    1 ' ]7 ' ^ vaccinating the hand, than for ufing his left hand inftead of his right. However, there can be np doubt that Xome inftances have occurred of SmaU-pox after Cow-pox, but this wefhall {how is no rea lobjeftion againft the pra6lice. There arc three ways in which it may happen ; Firrt, By an imperfect vaccination. Secondly, By the conftitution being under the in- fluence of fome other difeafe at the time of vacci- nation*. And, laftly, by the perfon being liable to the Small- pox twice. This laft feems very ftrange to thofe who fuppofe that there are rules which admit of no exceptions. But it is well known that fome people never take the Small-pox at all; and it is equally certain that fome few, happily very few, have it twice. I know fome fay, this was never thought of till the Cow-pox made its appearance ; but the following quotation is from a book publifhed before vaccination w'as pia^tifed. It is a law with moft morbid poifons, that a con?v flitution that has once gone through the a£lion excited by them is no longer fufceptible of it. This is the cafe, with veryJkw exceptions, in the Small-pox, I fay with very few exceptions, becaufe fome cafes to the contrary have been fo well authenticated, that I am ♦ These instances are well known to medical people. See Medical Journal, voi. xiu p. 97. c