39^ Hijlory a"d Antiquity of the Coiv-Tociy 



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 thofe who have had the cow-pock arc fully convinced that 

 they arc fccurcd jrom the injection of the common Jma 11- pox\ 

 as I myjelf on carefully inquiring into this circumjlance, 

 have often beard.' 



" This rtmarkable document was difcovered and again 

 made known by Mr C G S-einbcck, who, as 1 learn by a 

 letter from a friend, inferted it in his monthly journal, called 

 The German Patriot, for January t 02. VV hen the perfotl 

 who tranftnitted this notice, counfellor Fault, found it among 

 his books, he exclaimed, Eupr.Ka 1 I have found it! Hano- 

 ver or Germany, therefore, enjovs the honour of having 

 firft difcovered and publicly defcribed the cow-pock, and 

 the virtue it poffeffes, as far as is yet known, of being a 

 preventive of the fmall pox *." 



(No. i. page 86 ) " In the month of July, 1800, the 

 cow-pock was difcovered among the cows in the neighbour- 

 hood of P! on, and a phyfician of Eutin made experiments 

 with the matter, an account of which may he ieen in fien- 

 ring's Genius der Zeit, for the month ot October, 1800. 

 * Jutl when I was about to fend the copv of thefe annals to 

 the preis,' fays the author, ' I read in the Reichs Anzeiger, 

 1801, No. 182, a piece of very important intelligence, by 

 c hid ellor Hellwag of Eutin, that in Elolftein and Jutland 

 there are feveral men who have had the cow-pock, which is 

 indigenous in that country, both by infection and by being 

 purpofely inoculated, 13, 29, 36* and even 46 years ago, 

 and who have been hitherto preferved from the infection of 

 the fmalj-pox, though attempts have been made to commu- 

 nicate the latter difeafe to them by inoculation."' 



(No. 2. p. uo.) " A malignant fpecies of the fmall- 

 pox, which, about the time when the firft experiments 

 were made in Germanv, prevailed for fifteen months in the 

 neighbourhood of Hanover, and fwept off a great many 

 children, contributed not a little to favour the introduction 

 and propagation of the vaccine inoculation. 



" Matter was immediately procured from Dr. Jenner in 

 Gloucefterfhire, and it was obierved that it produced more 

 local effect: on the place of inoculation, while that obtained 

 frem Dr. Pearfon of London often produced a mild erup- 

 tion. The fame thing was afterwards obferved in regard to 

 the cow-pock matter produced in Hanover. At firft it was 

 fuppoied that this difference in effect arofe from a difference 

 in the inoculating matter. But Dr. Pearfon, who was con- 



• Is it 1 c very lingular rhat no phyfician of Gottingen, or of Ger- 

 many in general, had U been onlv in confequciicc of tins :<fUv of the 

 year 1769, thought this circumftance woithy of further examination ? 



fulted 



