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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    “ and another gentleman, in the fame county, 140 perlons, with- “ out producing any pujlules which maturated” Dr. Jenner, in his Continuation of Fadts and Obfervations, published 1800, alferts, in reply to Dr. Woodville, and in de- fence of his original pofition, that variolous-like puftules had not been heard of in cafes of Cow-pox, either from the regular or cafual inoculation, till they appeared at the Inoculation Hofpital. He therefore concludes, that the Cow-pox virus mull; have been contaminated by the virus of Small-pox. “ On this point he makes the following obfervation * :—It was *■* very improbable that the inveftigation of a difeafe fo analogous to the Small-pox, fhould go forward without engaging the at- t£ tention of the Phylician of the Small-pox Hofpital in London. “ Accordingly, Dr. Woodville, who fills that department with “ fo much refpe&ability, took an early opportunity of inftituting * See Dr. Jenner, 146, “ Continuation of Fads, &c.” an