A plain statement of facts, in favour of the cow-pox, intended for circulation through the middle and lower classes of society / by John Thomson.

  • Thomson, John, 1765-1846.
Date:
1809
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Credit: A plain statement of facts, in favour of the cow-pox, intended for circulation through the middle and lower classes of society / by John Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tend its circulation. All wbo have the po\v<>r of com- muuicating knovvledge to their less favoured fellow- cre lures, may it is hoped by this means convey instruction which conceins the health and happiness of every family and of every fireside. CHAPTER I. The history of the Cow-pox. A PARTICULAR kind of sore or eruption upon tlie teats ind udders of cows bas bten knowh tiroe out of mind, to those who have bad the care of large dairies. In Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Somcrsetshire, Buckinghamshire, Devonshirc, Hampshire, Liecestershire, and Staffordshire, it is generally known by the name ot Cow-po:^. In SuflToik and Noifolk it is called the Pap-pox. Near Cork, in Ireland, whcre it has been Irng known, it is called in the ancient language Shinagh.^ More lately it has been observed near Goitingen, in Holstein, in Swissciland, on the cows in the neighbourhood of Con- stantinople,+ and matter has bcen procurcd from the cows ih Lonib<]rdy.+ is communicated from the cow to ihe hands of the milker and thence to bther cows ; so it passes tluough the who|e herd, and the niilkers of ihe cows belonging to it. This «<z/z//iz/Cow-pox is a disease sometimes of considerable vlolencc, ihougk nevcr fatal. It will occasionally produce very painful and loul sores particulaily on the wrists and fingers, pain along the arm. pain and swelling in the arm pit, witl) so much tevelr and general illness tb oblige the patient to keep his bed. // * This word is formed of two Celtic words which express the orlgin of the disease, Sinne or Shinnc, a teaf, ar.d agh a cow, L. viii. 476. t By Dr. Aubini. + By Dr. Sacco.