cowpox

How To Use cowpox In A Sentence

• Injecting yourself with a cowpox vaccine or medicine made of mould must once have seemed very alternative.
• Having been inoculated with cowpox, Phipps was now immune to smallpox.
• In 1796, Jenner began to infect people first with the far more benign cowpox and then with smallpox.
• Jim had only slept that late once, the week and a half when he had gotten the cowpox.
• At the end of the 1700s, Jenner realized that people who had contracted cowpox, or ‘vaccinia,’ didn't get smallpox.
• The disease becomes modified when transferred to cattle, producing what is known as cowpox, in which vesicles similar to those of smallpox appear on the skin. Disease and Its Causes
• Vaccination of smallpox started in the late 18th century with Jenner's cowpox vaccine.
• Specialists have sought to mimic the response by devising a vaccine containing HIV virus tucked inside a disabled cowpox virus.
• If cowpox-induced antibodies protected against smallpox—and if cowpox could be transferred directly from person to person—an all-powerful weapon against one of the most ruthless killers in history was suddenly at hand. The Panic Virus
• It is true that at one time it was not clear what were the relationships of chickenpox and smallpox, of vaccinia and variola, of vaccinia and varioloid, of the various forms of pox in animals -- cowpox, swinepox, horsepox or grease -- either inter se or to human smallpox. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86