Definition of cowpock. Meaning of cowpock. Synonyms of cowpock

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Definition of cowpock

Cowpock
Cowpock Cow"pock` (-p[o^]k`), n. See Cowpox. --Dunglison.
cowpock
Cowpox Cow"pox` (-p[o^]ks`), n. (Med.) A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock. --Dunglison.

Meaning of cowpock from wikipedia

- he was a boy (now 60 years ago) that persons who had gone through the cowpock naturally, ie by taking it from cows, were insusceptible of the small-pox;...
- Tierney graduated doctor of medicine in Glasgow in 1802; he selected cowpock as his inaugural essay. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of...
- vaccination into Ireland. He served "without fee or reward" as Physician to the Cowpock Institution, established in 1800 at 26 Exchequer-street in Dublin. Creighton...