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Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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orn of ill-mated parents; and if hesurvives the fatal tendencies of a poor constitution till he himselfbecomes a father, his child, in turn, will possess at least a trace ofhis progenitors infirmities, and so on through the whole line of hisposterity. For further remarks on this subject, embracing a treatise on thecauses, effects, and partial remedies for unhappy marriages, thereader is referred to Part Fourth of this work, where it will receivethe attention its importance demands. Impure Vaccination. In the seventeenth century, a country-woman astonished her sur-geon by telling him that she could not have the small-pox, becauseshe had already been affected by the cow-pox. The woman wasfresh from the cow-yard and the country, and the surgeon was Dr.Edward Jenner, a physician at that time of no very great prom-inence. Dr. Jenner at once set himself to the work of investigat-ing the country-womans whim when lie found that the dairy- 190 CAUSES OF NERVOUS AND BLOOD DERANGEMENTS. Fig. 57.
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maids frequently contracted a disease from an eruption on the bagof the cow, which affection was called cow-pox. Jenner thereforesupposed, and attempted to prove, some close relationship betweencow-pox and small-pox, with the hopeof placing the practice of vaccination ona scientific basis. He experimented withseveral forms of pox disease with vari-able results, but finally settled down onthe theory that a disease of the horseshoof, known as horse-grease, was thesource of human small-pox and of cow-pox. A boy named Baker, whom heinoculated with humanized grease,taken from the hands of a man who hadcaught it from the heels of a mare, diedfrom the severity of the disease, and sohe was induced to modify it by workingit through the cow. His own child heinoculated with swine-pox, and this hewould have advocated as a regular prac-jenner vaccinating his child tice, except that he appreciated that it WITH SWINE-POX. , ,. ,. , , was too disgusting to secure popular ac-ceptance. Jenners great di

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