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Title: An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae
A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox

Author: Edward Jenner

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AN
_INQUIRY_
INTO
THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS
OF
THE VARIOLAE VACCINAE.

PRICE 7s. 6d.

AN
_INQUIRY_
INTO
THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS
OF
THE VARIOLAE VACCINAE,
A DISEASE
DISCOVERED IN SOME OF THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND,
PARTICULARLY
_GLOUCESTERSHIRE_,
AND KNOWN BY THE NAME OF
THE COW POX.

BY EDWARD JENNER, M.D. F.R.S. &c.

----QUID NOBIS CERTIUS IPSIS
SENSIBUS ESSE POTEST, QUO VERA AC FALSA NOTEMUS.

LUCRETIUS.

London:
PRINTED, FOR THE AUTHOR,
BY SAMPSON LOW, No. 7, BERWICK STREET, SOHO:
AND SOLD BY LAW, AVE-MARIA LANE; AND MURRAY AND HIGHLEY, FLEET STREET.

1798.

TO
_C. H. PARRY, M.D._
AT BATH.

_My dear friend_,

In the present age of scientific investigation, it is remarka