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A Practical Treatise on Vaccina or Cow-Pock; Embellished with a Coloured Engraving, Representing a View of the Local Affection in Its Different Stag

A Practical Treatise on Vaccina or Cow-Pock; Embellished with a Coloured Engraving, Representing a View of the Local Affection in Its Different Stag

Scofield, Samuel

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ISBN10: 1235836908
ISBN13: 9781235836909
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.05 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. DESCRIPTION OF THE CASUAL AND INOCULATED COWPOCK, TOGETHER WITH ITS ANOMALIES, AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE SPURIOUS DISEASE., .. SECTION I. Description of the Casual Coivpock. THIS disease makes its appearance on the teats and udder of the cow in the spring of the year. According to Dr. Jenner, when one cow becomes affected with it, it soon spreads through the whole farm, not by any contagious effluvia which arise from the vesicles, but from the matter being conveyed, by the hands of the milkers, from one cow to another: and all those concerned in milking generally suffer, more or less, notwithstanding they may have previously passed through the disease. Vhen it is first observed in this animal it is in the form of small vesicles; these shortly enlarge, and in the course of their progress are surrounded by a tumid inflammatory affection, which appears to be of the erysipelatous kind. The vesicles are characterized and happily distinguished from all other eruptive complaints to which this animal is subject, by their bluish or livid colour. If proper caution is not used in the treatment of these eruptions, they frequently end in a foul and disagreeable phagedenic ulcer. The Cow-Doctors cure these ulcers by the application of strong escharotics. The animal, during the progress of these vesicles, is generally indisposed, if it be the first attack. They lose their appetite, and there is a considerable diminution in the secretion of milk. Virus, issuing from these vesicles, by coming in contact with the hands of the domestics of the dairy, give rise to a similar eruption, manifesting itself, more particularly, about the joints of the hands, and at the ends of the fingers. This is what has been denominated Casual Cowpox; and is...

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