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Cowpox

noun
1.
A viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox.  Synonym: vaccinia.






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"Cowpox" Quotes from Famous Books



... but the importance of his work in vaccination has overshadowed his other results. Early in his career he had begun to observe the phenomena of cowpox, a disease common in the rural parts of the western counties of England, and he was familiar with the belief, current among the peasantry, that a person who had suffered from the cowpox could not take smallpox. Finally, in 1796, he made his first experiment ...
— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various



Words linked to "Cowpox" :   pox, animal disease



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