COW POX

This disease was proposed in the year 1798 as a substitute for, and preventive of, the small pox by Dr. Jenner; and subsequent experience, as well as the extent to which the inoculation of it, or vaccination, as it is called, is carried throughout the civilized world, furnish well-grounded hopes of the ultimate extinction of one of the severest visitations of the human race. Small bluish vesicles, surrounded by inflammation, elevated at the edge and depre ed in the centre, and containing a limpid fluid, occasionally appear upon the teats of the cow, the animal being at the same time somewhat indisposed: a similar disease is transferable under certain circumstances to the hands of the milkers; and persons who had so received it were found to be in many instances unsusceptible of small pox, both natural and Inoculated. There is a disease of the horse's heel called *U 5 [s. 310]