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JENNER, EDWARD. An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae... Second Edition. 4 stipple-engraved plates of cowpox pustules,
JENNER, EDWARD. An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae... Second Edition. 4 stipple-engraved plates of cowpox pustules, partly printed in sanguine and hand-colored. [2], vii, [1], 182, [1] pages, including half-title and errata leaf. 4to, modern 1/2 mottled calf gilt with red morocco lettering piece; light adhesive discoloration across top of title caused by letter tipped to half-title (see below). London: for the Author, 1800
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Notes: "Jenner's discovery of vaccination made possible the immediate control of smallpox and the saving of untold lives... Jenner must be considered the founder of immunology; in vaccination he made the first use of an attenuated virus for immunization. For his coining of the term 'virus,' his effort to describe the natural history of the cowpox virus, and his description of anaphylaxis, he must be considered the first pioneer of the modern science of virology"--DSB VII, 97. Garrison-Morton 5423 (1798 original edition, "one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medicine"); LeFanu 24 (this edition).
With the later 19th-century signature and bookplate of Charles Hawkins and 2 ALsS in his hand, the first referring to this copy as having been given to his father by Jenner (although there is no evidence in the book itself to support this claim), and with a related ALS from Hawkins's wife.
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