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APPENDIX. 2 1 I lieved that small pox v/as a visitation from God, in punishment for sin, which no human skill could mitigate or evade; and as late as the last century, there was a common saying, long since ripened into a proverb, that there were *'kinds of small pox that a nurse couldn't kill and a doctor couldn't cure," and the epigram of Ben Jonson— Envious and foul disease, could there not be One beauty in an age, and free from thee ?'' would seeiu to confirm the tale of its universal prevalence. Moreover, there was another, and, perhaps, not the least potent objection to inoculation with the virus of small pox, renewed for generations from the human pustule. It was not only said to induce spotted fever, rash, consumption, ophthalmia and erysipelas, but it was boldly alleged and stoutly maintained by physicians opposed to the i^ractice, and believed by great masses of the people, that humanized small-pox virus was charged with the poison of every infectious and contagious disease lurking in the blood of the human subject from which it was taken, and was transmitted by inoculation to innocent persons in perfect health; and among these were scrofula, cancer, leprosy, syphilis, scurvy, tuberculosis, and a score of kindred diseases scarcely less loathsome, and little more amenable to treatment, than the disease they sought to escape. But it was so ordered as to fall to the lot of glorious woman to voice the key-note of investigation and experiment, from which arose an antagonist destined to assail, circumvent and destroy the pestilential scourge. In or about the year 1768, a young woman entered the office of a country practitioner in Gloucester, England, and in the course of conversation, in which small pox was mentioned, she said, can not take that disease, for I have had cow-pox!'' If the country doctor noticed the remark, it has not come down to us, but it sank deep into the active brain of his young apprentice, and long afterwards, when he had served his term and become himself a doctor, it became the subject of his deepest cogitations. He introduced it in conversation with his personal friends; discussed it in the assemblies of his profession; instituted inquiries among the dairy people, and gave to investigation and experiment the hours conmionly devoted to rest and recreation. His experiments consisted mainly in the application of the test of small pox inoculations to persons who had, at some times in their lives, had the cow-pox; (2) in transferring the virus of small-pox direct from the cow's teats or udder to the human subject in health; (3) in transferring the resulting product from arm to arm of different persons in health. He published the result in London in 1799, and of other and further experiments and conclusions in 1800. which, briefly stated, are these: That the pustular eruption found on the udder of the cow (which 12
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Full Text | APPENDIX. 2 1 I lieved that small pox v/as a visitation from God, in punishment for sin, which no human skill could mitigate or evade; and as late as the last century, there was a common saying, long since ripened into a proverb, that there were *'kinds of small pox that a nurse couldn't kill and a doctor couldn't cure" and the epigram of Ben Jonson— Envious and foul disease, could there not be One beauty in an age, and free from thee ?'' would seeiu to confirm the tale of its universal prevalence. Moreover, there was another, and, perhaps, not the least potent objection to inoculation with the virus of small pox, renewed for generations from the human pustule. It was not only said to induce spotted fever, rash, consumption, ophthalmia and erysipelas, but it was boldly alleged and stoutly maintained by physicians opposed to the i^ractice, and believed by great masses of the people, that humanized small-pox virus was charged with the poison of every infectious and contagious disease lurking in the blood of the human subject from which it was taken, and was transmitted by inoculation to innocent persons in perfect health; and among these were scrofula, cancer, leprosy, syphilis, scurvy, tuberculosis, and a score of kindred diseases scarcely less loathsome, and little more amenable to treatment, than the disease they sought to escape. But it was so ordered as to fall to the lot of glorious woman to voice the key-note of investigation and experiment, from which arose an antagonist destined to assail, circumvent and destroy the pestilential scourge. In or about the year 1768, a young woman entered the office of a country practitioner in Gloucester, England, and in the course of conversation, in which small pox was mentioned, she said, can not take that disease, for I have had cow-pox!'' If the country doctor noticed the remark, it has not come down to us, but it sank deep into the active brain of his young apprentice, and long afterwards, when he had served his term and become himself a doctor, it became the subject of his deepest cogitations. He introduced it in conversation with his personal friends; discussed it in the assemblies of his profession; instituted inquiries among the dairy people, and gave to investigation and experiment the hours conmionly devoted to rest and recreation. His experiments consisted mainly in the application of the test of small pox inoculations to persons who had, at some times in their lives, had the cow-pox; (2) in transferring the virus of small-pox direct from the cow's teats or udder to the human subject in health; (3) in transferring the resulting product from arm to arm of different persons in health. He published the result in London in 1799, and of other and further experiments and conclusions in 1800. which, briefly stated, are these: That the pustular eruption found on the udder of the cow (which 12 |
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