A continuation of facts and observations relative to the variolae vaccinae, or cow pox / by Edward Jenner.

  • Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823
Date:
1800
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Credit: A continuation of facts and observations relative to the variolae vaccinae, or cow pox / by Edward Jenner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Dear Sir, “ Society at large mud: I think feel much indebted to you for your Inquiries and Obfervations on the Nature and Effedts of the Variolse Vaccinae, &c» &c. As I conceive what I am now about to communicate to be of fome importance, I imagine it cannot be uninteresting to you, efpecially as it will ferve to corroborate your alfertion of the fufceptibility of the human fyftem of the variolous contagion, although it has previoufly been made fenlible of its adlion. In November 1793, I was defired to inoculate a perfon with the Small Pox. I took the variolous matter from a child under the difeafe in the natural way, who had a large burthen of diftindt puftules. The mother of the child being defirous of feeing my method of communi- cating the difeafe by inoculation, after having opened a pultule, I introduced the point of my lancet in the ufual way on the back part of my own hand, and thought no more of it until I felt a fenfation in the part, which reminded me of the tranfac- tion. This happened upon the third day; on the fourth there were all the appearances common to inoculation, at which I was 2 not