A comprehensive view of the small pox, cow pox, and chicken pox : With a concise history of their different stages and terminations, proving that the real small pox never have occurred more than once in the same person, nor ever after the cow pox.

  • Sanders, James, 1777-1843.
Date:
1813
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Credit: A comprehensive view of the small pox, cow pox, and chicken pox : With a concise history of their different stages and terminations, proving that the real small pox never have occurred more than once in the same person, nor ever after the cow pox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    INTRODUCTION. Can the human constitution be rendered se- cure AGAINST THE SMALL POX? From our wishes proceed our most grievous dis- appointments ; no prudent man therefore, would admit the affirmative without unexceptionable evidence The experiments of Dr. Jenner convinced by far the greater part of Medical men, that the de- sired antidote was in the Cow Pox; in a short time however, the most zealous promoters of the New Inoculation adopted the opinion, that it sometimes failed; in the years 1808 and 1809, the alleged instances of failure were so numer-