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An Inquiry into the Caufes and Effects of the Variola Vac~ cina9or the Cow-pox. By Edward Jenner, M.D* F.R.S. c, 4to.—An Inquiry concerning the Hi/lory of the Cow-poxy principally with a View to fuperfede and ex-, tinguiflj the Small-pox. By GeorgePe arson, M.D. F.iJ.S. c. 8vo. ~Thefe two interefting publications having avowedly the fame humane and beneficial object in view, namely, the rooting out of a difeafe which has fvvept away an iminenfely greater number of viims from the world than the aniount of all that have been deftroyed by the plague or peftilence, there can be no impropriety in joining them together in this fliort notice ; for, fliort it muft be, as all we can aim at, or hope for, is to excite the curiofity of fuch of our readers as have not feen them, that they may examine the facts brought forward, and by this tneans be led to yield their individual affiftance in the profecution of an object of-fo muqh. importance.Opinions are not agreed as to the origin of this difeafe iii cows; fome fuppofing that they get it by infection from men milking them, who have been previoufly applying dreffings to the heels of horfes afFe£ted with the greafe 5 while others, with more probability, confider it as being in the firft inftance compounded in the animal economy of the cow; after which, it maybe conveyed to any number (in an obvious way by the hands of the milkers, as the feat of the difeafe is in the breaft and teats, which are covered with eruptions fimilar to the fmall-pox). But its origin is of no importance:—-its.application to; the benefit of mankind is what demands the greateft attention. c .Vol. II. O It
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Philosophical Magazine
London, Middlesex, GB
Thu, Nov 01, 1798
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