Volume 1

A treatise on the cow-pox : containing the history of vaccine inoculation, and an account of the various publications which have appeared on that subject, in Great Britain, and other parts of the world / by John Ring.

  • Ring, John, 1752-1821.
Date:
1801-1803
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Credit: A treatise on the cow-pox : containing the history of vaccine inoculation, and an account of the various publications which have appeared on that subject, in Great Britain, and other parts of the world / by John Ring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    estate in Ireland, having been compelled to milk the cows in the park, were considered by their neigh- bours and fellow servants, as utterly unfit for all society. Had they committed murder, they might have found some kind friend to speak to them, and associate with them; but they had been guilty of a much greater crime, that of milking cozus. This, it seems, is sufficient in that country, to excite detestation and abhorrence; and these unfor- tunate men were obliged to leave their homes, and inlist into the army. Whether the gallant Hiberni- ans wish to discourage all encroachments on the province of the fair sex, or the dairy maids of Ire- land suffered as great inconveniences as those of Gloucestershire from milking with the men, it is not easy to determine. The preceding narrative, while it proves, that Dr. Jenner's first information on this head was not per- fectly correct, serves to reconcile his opinion of the rise of the distemper to probability; otherwise it must fall to the ground; for I have just been reading in the Medical and Physical Journal, a letter from Dr. Barry of Cork, giving an account that the vac- cine disease has long been known in that kingdom. From Dr. Barry's communication it appears, that some of the country people in Ireland are well ac- quainted with the disease; and describe it very accurately. It is known by the name of Shinah.