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after the fiijall-pox, bath when inoculated and when the dif*. 

 eafe takes place in ^he natural way ; on the contrary, we have 

 inoculated feveral very delicate children, whole health fecmc4 

 to be much improved by the operation in every refpetSt. 



Bxtrad of a Letter frovi Dr. Marshall, dated Vaktta 

 {Malta), January 31, 1801. 

 *^ Since my laft, I have the pleafure to inform you tha^ 

 Pr. Walker and myfelf have been very fuccefsfql in purfuing 

 the obje6l of our miflion. We have had the happincTs to ar- 

 reft the deftroying progrefs of the fmall-pox, which has ragecj 

 very much, and has been very mortal at Minorca and Malta, 

 and on board the fleet. The Minorqueens, who at firfl re- 

 ceived the vaccina inoculation cautiou{ly,are now very happy, 

 and it is generally adopted among them. At Malta, the mod 

 complete fuccefs has attended us. When we arrived here, we 

 at iirft inoculated fome children belonging to the Foundling 

 J lofpital, and from them feveral others j but, finding it difncult 

 to perfuade the people of its efficacy, we fubje6ted many of 

 ^hefe to the teft of the infertipn of the matter of the fmall-pox, 

 upon all of whom it had not the lead effect. This experiment 

 was publicly made in prefcjnce of the governor*, the Tuniiian 

 ambaffador, the Britifh confwl, and mar>y of the principal 

 inhabitants. In going to the hofpital we formed a procef- 

 fion : the governor walked at our head in his uniform, the 

 i^lergy in their canonicals ; and we were accompanied by moft 

 of the medical profeffors, The fuccefs attending our experi- 

 jnent, and the publicity of the efficacy of the Jennerian in-, 

 Cculation, has caufed the inhabitants to come in great num- 

 bers to be inoculated. The governor has had Dr. Jenner's 

 work tranf] Ad and printed for the inhabitants, and he has 

 ^Ifo eftablifticd an hofpital for the inoculation of the poor, 

 under the name of the Jennerian Inltitution ; and as on our 

 arrival we found the fmall-pox in the ifland, the inhabit- 

 ants have preff^d in crowds, both the mafs of the people and 

 the nobility. Dr. Jenner's difcovery is held here in fiich 

 |iigh efteem, that the governor, who is the idol of the Mai- 



'^ The attendance of the Tunifian ambafladot was, nn aCcclmt 6f A 

 wifb (Ue dty bad exprtfled to hdve the covv^jpox yittoduc^d at Tunis. 



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