For the use of families : a plain and familiar treatise on the cow-pox, describing its origin, nature, and mode of inoculation, (with a plate,) whereby any person may distinguish the genuine from the spurious kind-- a distinction of the utmost importance : as the one kind renders the body unsusceptible of the infection of the common small-pox, whilst the other, having only a local effect, leaves it still liable to that baneful disease / extracted from the writings of Drs. Jenner [and others].

Date:
1804
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Credit: For the use of families : a plain and familiar treatise on the cow-pox, describing its origin, nature, and mode of inoculation, (with a plate,) whereby any person may distinguish the genuine from the spurious kind-- a distinction of the utmost importance : as the one kind renders the body unsusceptible of the infection of the common small-pox, whilst the other, having only a local effect, leaves it still liable to that baneful disease / extracted from the writings of Drs. Jenner [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    seem at all to be affected by the local inflammation of the spuri- ous kind:—However, he cannot think that he has done his duty, till he shall have tried yet again, or again, to obtain the genuine disease. CHAP. III. A comparative estimate of the Natural Small-Pox, Inoculated Small-Pox, and the Inoculated Cow-Pox. 3. r jj 'Ml IS estimate is nearly copied verbatim, from that Jl circulated in London by the Royal Jennerian Society, established for the extermination of the Small-Pox; and patron- ized by their Majesties, and all the royal family—most of the nobility—the leading members of both Houses of Parliament, and a medical council comprehending the most noted practi- tioners in the United Kingdom. 2. The Natural Small-Pox, has been known to continue its ravages for twelve centuries, destroying in every year an immense proportion of the whole population of the world—- always contagious—sometimes mild; but for the most part violent, painful, loathsome and dangerous to life. One in six having this disease dies :—at the least one half of mankind have it, consequently one in twelve of the human race perishes by this one disease!!—amounting in London to three thousand every year ; and in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to 40,000 annually.—One in three has the natural Small-Pox dangerously:—Tfle eruptions nume- rous, painful, and disgusting; causing much confinement, loss of time, and expence—precautions are commonly unavail- ing—medical treatment necessary both before, and alter the disease—leaves pits, scars, seams, See. which disfigure the skin, and especially the face—is often followed by scrofula in every form; together with diseases of the skin, glands, joints, with frequent blindness, lameness, &c. 3. The Inoculated Small-Pox is always contagious— commonly mild ; but in some instances is as bad as the natural kind.—In general one in three hundred dies-, perhaps in Lon- don one in a hundred—One in thirty or forty has it dangerously —eruptions constant; but the number uncertain Confine- ment, loss of time, and ex pence sometimes considerable—pre- parations necessary by diet, and medicine—care required as to seasons, period’ of life, and state of constitution—medical treatment commonly necessary—deformities, and subsequent diseases to be apprehended, same as in the above, whenever the Pox proves to be of a bad kind. 4. The Inoculated Cow-Pox.—Is not contagious—mild and inoffensive—seldom painful—free from danger. The B