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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    Dr. Woodville, forgetting that he fine commenced the attack, complains, that his conclufions refpecting the puftular eruptions which appeared at the Inoculation Hofpital, have been oppofed in a manner he deems wholly unwarrantable. He accufes Dr. Jenner of maintaining in his laid publication, “ That the vario- “ lous-like puftules could only proceed from variolous matter “ introduced by inoculation into the fyftem along with that of “ the vaccine.” Dr. Jenner might, from refpedl to Dr. Woodville, have re- linquished his pofition, “ That pujlules do not belong to the Cow-pox but he could not have defended it in a manner lefs objedlionable. Singular, as it may appear. Dr. Woodville himfelf falls into Dr. Jenner’s original opinion, “ That the variolous-like ' pujlules are independent of Cow-pox.”—(See Dr. Woodville’s Obfervations, page 18.) He however ftrenuoufly contends, that the Cow-pox virus could