Reports of a series of inoculations for the variolae vaccinae, or cow-pox : with remarks and observations on this disease, considered as a substitute for the small-pox / by William Woodville.

  • Woodville, William, 1752-1805.
Date:
[1799]
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Credit: Reports of a series of inoculations for the variolae vaccinae, or cow-pox : with remarks and observations on this disease, considered as a substitute for the small-pox / by William Woodville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    REPORTS, &c. Last Summer Dr. Jenner prefented to the public * feveral curious and interefting fads, refpeding a difeafe known to dairy farmers by the name of Cow-pox. The moft important of thefe is, that perfons who have been affeded with this diftemper are thereby rendered as fecure from the effedts of the variolous infedion as if they had adually undergone the Small-pox. * See an Inquiry into the caufes and efFefts of tiae Variolas vaccinae, a difeafe difcovered in ferae of the Weftern counties of England, particularly Gloucefterfliire, and known by the name of the Cow-pox. A However