1815. Inscr. on J. Birch’s Monumt. (St. Margaret Pattens, Eastcheap). The practice of cow-poxing, which first became general in his day … he uniformly, and till Death, perseveringly opposed.
1829. Cobbett, Adv. to Fathers, § 263. In hundreds of instances, persons cow-poxed by JENNER HIMSELF, have taken the real small-pox afterwards, and have either died from the disorder, or narrowly escaped with their lives!
