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Title: History and pathology of vaccination
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Crookshank, Edgar March
Subjects: Vaccination Smallpox, Inoculation of Vaccine lymph
Publisher: Philadelphia : P. Blackiston
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e method of performingSmall Pox inoculation) into the arm of James Phipps,a healthy boy about eight years old. The inocula-tion succeeded, the result being described as muchthe same as after inoculation in the same way withvariolous matter, except that the usual efflorescencehad more of an erysipelatous look. The wholedied away, leaving scabs and subsequent eschars.Jenner was so impatient to try the effect of variolousinoculation, that on July ist, only six weeks afterthe insertion of the Cow Pox matter, variolous lymphwas applied, by means of punctures and slight incisions.Jenner communicated his experiments on Phipps tohis friend Gardner. Dear Gardner, As I promised to let you know how I proceeded in myinquiry into the nature of that singular disease the Cow Pox,and being fully satisfied how much you feel interested in itssuccess, you will be gratified in hearing that I have at lengthaccomplished what 1 have been so long waiting for, the passing of ■Fiiri/ig j<a^e 136.PLATE II.
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P5 X «c w •^ PS o § 50< w.< LIFE AXD LETTERS. 137 the Vaccine Virus from one human being to another by theordinary mode of inoculation. A boy of the name of Phipps was inoculated in the arm froma pustule on the hand of a young woman who was infected byher masters cows. Having never seen the disease but in itscasual way before, that is, when communicated from the cowto the hand of the milker, I was astonished at the close resem-blance of the pustules, in some of their stages, to the variolouspustules. But now listen to the most delightful part of my story.The boy has since been inoculated for the Small Pox which, as Iventured to predict, produced no effect. I shall now pursuemy experiments with redoubled ardour. Believe me yours, very sincerely, Edward Jenner.Berkeley, Jtily 19, 1796. Jenner had now materials for another paper for theRoyal Society, but he waited a year in order toadd two or three more cases, of failure to inoculateafter casual Cow Pox. In February 1797, Willi

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