Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Vaccination, Its Natural History and Pathology: Being the Milroy Lectures for 1898, Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians of London
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.
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