A comparative statement of facts and observations relative to the cow-pox / published by Doctors Jenner and Woodville. [Anon].

  • Paytherus, Thomas.
Date:
1800
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Credit: A comparative statement of facts and observations relative to the cow-pox / published by Doctors Jenner and Woodville. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Among the patients inoculated for the Cow-pox during the “ firft week in which I obtained the matter of this difeafe,y<?- “ veral werefo circumjlanced as to be afterwards confiantly “ expofed* to the infection of the Small-pox. Having then had “ no proof that the progrefs of the infe&ion of the former “ would fuperfede that of the latter, I ufed the precaution to “ inoculate the patients with variolous matter on the ffth day “ after that taken from the Cow had been inferted.” ‘‘ At the requeft of Dr. Jenner, I transmitted to him, in “ Gloucefterfhire, fome of the Cow-pox matter, from the pa. “ tients then under my care, which he ufed for the purpofe of “ inoculation : after a trial of it, he informed me, that ‘ the “ rife, progrefs, and termination of the puftule, created by this “ virus on the arm, was exactly that of the true uncontaminat- “ ed Cow-pox.’ The matter fent was taken from the arm of “ Ann Bumpus, who had 310 pufules, all of which fuppurated ; “ yet with the matter of this ftock, Dr. Jenner inoculated twenty, * This expofure was the caufe of the firit appearance of puftules in caf.s ot Cow Pox. and