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M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, for his house, Plancius, Sextius, Coelius, Milo, Ligarius, etc. (ed. C. D. Yonge) 4 0 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], Vaccination. (search)
Vaccination. Vacca is the Latin word for cow; Vaccinia is the Latin word and scientific name for cow-pox; Vaccination the name for the process by which the vaccine disease (Vaccinia, Cow-pox, Kine pox,) is produced in a human being. More than sixty years ago it was discovered that persons who had caught the cow- pox from cows affected with this disease could not take the small-pox. The Southern Confederacy, in an interesting article on the subject, says: Sixty years ago (May 14, 1796,) matter was taken from the hand of Sarah Nelmes, a dairy maid, who had been affected by her master's cows, and inserted into the arms of James Phipps, a healthy boy about eight years old. On the 1st of July small-pox matter, fresh from pustule, was carefully inserted in several places in his arms, but no disease followed. If small-pox matter be inserted under the skin of a healthy individual, he will have small pox; if the saliva of a mad dog be inserted hydrophobia will follow; if a l