Now there is a disease of cows know as cowpox or vaccinia (from the Latin vacca, a cow) which is communicable to human beings. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
The germ of cowpox, which is believed to be either the cow or horse variety of human smallpox, is cultivated upon healthy calves. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Health] Reference
A drop of cowpox is placed on the upper arm. From Wordnik.com. [Smallpox Vaccine] Reference
The vaccinia ( "cowpox") virus was used in the first inoculations against smallpox, and is still the basis for current vaccines. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The cowpox had trained his body to fight off smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [Web site celebrates often unknown scientists who have saved lives] Reference
Dorset, inoculated his wife and three children with cowpox. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
It was rather hard to blame Dr. Jenner for the origin of cowpox. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Whether cowpox is a modified form of smallpox or a distinct disease is unknown. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
In 1769 a German, Bose, wrote on the subject of cowpox protecting from smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
The smallpox vaccine is made using a poxvirus that infects cows (cowpox or vaccinia). From Wordnik.com. [Smallpox Vaccine] Reference
The person who first used cowpox to protect against smallpox was Edward Jenner in 1796. From Wordnik.com. [Smallpox Vaccine] Reference
Jenner's vaccine based on cowpox marked the beginning of man's counterattack on smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [Stewart Abercrombie Baker: Smallpox in the Garage] Reference
The risk was eliminated by Edward Jenner's introduction of vaccination with cowpox in 1798. From Wordnik.com. [HEALTH AND DISEASE] Reference
Dr. Jenner called on the great surgeon Mr. Cline, and left some cowpox virus with him for trial. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Because cowpox and human smallpox are similar, infection with cowpox can protect humans against smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [Smallpox Vaccine] Reference
The scientist investigated and found the milkmaids had had cowpox which had made them immune to smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Is Weight-Loss Advice Unethical?] Reference
Vaccination was first coined as a term when Edward Jenner used cowpox to immunize people against smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [Vaccine Science] Reference
He tested it by infecting a child with cowpox first and later with smallpox -- and the boy didn't get sick. From Wordnik.com. [Web site celebrates often unknown scientists who have saved lives] Reference
The English country doctor merely said in essence -- "let me give you cowpox and you will not get smallpox.". From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Indeed, it was Jenner's initial care and knowledge of patients that noted that cowpox could act as a vaccine. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Gloucestershire, was the first person to think scientifically on the fact that cowpox protected from smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Because of this idle memory, he realized he could use the less-dangerous cowpox virus to inoculate against smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [Oops!] Reference
By the 1940s, technology allowed for large-scale growth of cowpox and subsequent immunization of entire populations. From Wordnik.com. [Trivia Corner] Reference
In 1788 Jenner had a careful drawing made of the hand of a milkmaid suffering from cowpox to demonstrate to Sir Everard. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
He inserted material from cowpox sores into cuts he made on the arm of a healthy eight-year-old boy, who caught cowpox. From Wordnik.com. [A needle today keeps disease away] Reference
Jenner, Edward, Dr (1749 – 1823): discoverer (1796) and tireless promoter of vaccination for smallpox with cowpox serum. From Wordnik.com. [Index of People] Reference
The boy caught cowpox, but when he was exposed to smallpox eight weeks later, he did not contract the often-fatal disease. From Wordnik.com. [Now I'm even writing in my sleep] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
That was when Edward Jenner realized that milkmaids who caught cowpox seemed to be protected from smallpox, to which cowpox was related. From Wordnik.com. [Stewart Abercrombie Baker: Smallpox in the Garage] Reference
Edward Jenner was the first to realize that because of their exposure to cowpox, milkmaids were immune when smallpox outbreaks occurred. From Wordnik.com. [Trivia Corner] Reference
Afterwards he cultured cowpox and offered it to villagers. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
I show you here the hand of Sarah Nelmes with cowpox, 1796. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913] Reference
Virus-specific antigen expressed nucleus cowpox virus-infected cells. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
Sometimes she said it was by "giving of them all the cowpox," as Dame. From Wordnik.com. [The Carbonels] Reference
Smallpox takes thirteen or fourteen days to develop; cowpox runs its course in eight. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Therne] Reference
Doubt. vaccinate v. To inoculate with vaccine virus or virus of cowpox. unbiased adj. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Intentional vaccination with live cowpox was then introduced to successfully combat smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
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