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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    By a comparative ftatement of the fadts and opinions which they have, at different periods, brought before the public, it will appear how far they coincide. To prevent the poffibility of mifreprefentation, Dr. Jenner’s pofitions fhall be contracted with correct extracts from Dr. Woodville’s pamphlets. We fhall begin with the moft important pofition of Dr. Jenner: ‘£ That perfons, who have been affeEted with Cow-pox, are ren- dered perfectly fecure from the ejfeEts of variolous contagion.” * “ It has been alferted, that perfons have had the Small-pox “ after having been affedted with the Cow-pox; and fome fadts “ have been published with a view to fliow that inftances of “ this kind have adtually happened. But all thefe, as far as I “ have feen, have been very defedtive in not affording fufficient “ proof, that the affedtion fuppofed to have been the Cow-pox, if was in reality that difeafe. On the other hand, the inftances * See Dr. Woodville’s Reports, page 154. which