Cow-pox inoculation no security against small-pox infection / by William Rowley. To which are added, the modes of treating the beastly new diseases produced from cow pox, explained by two coloured copper-plate engravings, as cow-pox mange, cow-pox ulcers, cow-pox evil or abscess, cow-pox mortification, &c., with the author's certain, experienced, and successful mode of inoculating for the small pox, which now becomes necessary from cow-pox failure, &c.

  • Rowley, William, 1742 or 1743-1806.
Date:
1805
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Credit: Cow-pox inoculation no security against small-pox infection / by William Rowley. To which are added, the modes of treating the beastly new diseases produced from cow pox, explained by two coloured copper-plate engravings, as cow-pox mange, cow-pox ulcers, cow-pox evil or abscess, cow-pox mortification, &c., with the author's certain, experienced, and successful mode of inoculating for the small pox, which now becomes necessary from cow-pox failure, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    18/98 (page 4)
    I. The safety and certainty of Small-pox Inoculation, esta- blished hy one hundred years successful experience—there- fore Cow Pox unnecessary. WHEN the inoculation for the Small Pox had arrived at the utmost degree of perfection ; when it had been proved jiext to impossible to lose an inoculated patient out of many thous,ands; when the utility of the practice had been firmly established by gradual improvement for nearly one hundred years; when the certainty of safely and securely preventing the infectious Small Pox had been infallibly proved by mil- lions, nay, myriads of instances, far beyond the possibility of doubt, cavilling, or disputation, then is ushered into the world, precipitately and vehemently, a new disease, from the brute creation, namely, the Cow Pox. Small-pox inoculation was a well-known, proved, and absolute pre- vention from receiving the natural Small-pox infection, as millions of people now living can testify: it was safe, mild, and certain ; therefore Cow-pox inoculation, as a substitute, was absolutely unnecessary. Why leave a certainty for an uncertainty ? IT. P^ehement conduct of Coto-pox Inoculators. THE Cow-pox inoculation was forced into the world with the utmost vehemence, pomp, and ostentation.* To tho- roughly propagate any project, it is only necessary to in- spire a few self-opinionated sincere enthusiasts to take the lead -y. these are sure to attract all the credulous, all those who swallow flying reports and opinions instead of truth and realities, and who are incapable, or are seldom at the labour of thinking and reasoning for themselves. Thus it is that all * It 'was too hot to hold; therefore the refined artists struck bristly while the iron was hot. Many mim of the strongest passions, but perhaps not of the (leepest reflection or sojindest judgment, were first seized with this Cow-pox moTri*. Some of the most eminent men-midwives were most vehement, and some were so