Vaccination, Its Natural History and Pathology e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Just one hundred years ago, in the summer of the year 1798, there was published a treatise, the appear ance of which marked a never-to - be-forgotten event in the history of scientific medicine. This truly epoch making publication was entitled An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinee, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the Cow-pox. It was the work of Edward Jenner, a country medical practitioner, living at Berkeley in the vale of Gloucester.