Vaccination, Its Natural History and Pathology - Being the Milroy Lectures for 1898, Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians of London #267498

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.