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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    “ an Inquiry into the nature of the Cow-pox. This Inquiry was “ began in the early part of the year 1799, and in May, Dr. “ Woodville publifhed the refult, which differs effentially from lt mine in a point of much importance. It appears that three- “ fifths of the patients inoculated were affedted with eruptions, “ for the moft part fo perfectly refembling the Small-pox, as “ not to be diftinguifhed from them. On this fubjedt it is ne- “ ceffary that I fhould make fome comments. “ When I confider that out of the great number of Cafes of “ cafual inoculation immediately from cows, which have, from “ time to time, prefented themfelves to my obfervation, and the “ many fimilar inftances which have been communicated to me “ by medical gentlemen in this neighbourhood; when I con- “ fider too that the matter with which my inoculations were “ conducted in the years 1797, 98, and 99, was taken from “ different cows, and that in no inftance any thing like a vario- f< lous puftule appeared, I cannot feel difpofed to imagine that “ eruptions, fimilar to thofe defcribed by Dr. Woodville, have “ ever been produced by the pure uncontaminated Cow-pock D 2 virus: