Vaccine Inoculation, i%y 



better 111 endeavouring- to give her a dofe of white vitriol, 

 I then procured a fniall fwitchj and apphcd it pretty freely to 

 her arms and flioulders, which were defended only by a thin 

 linen covering. I alfo applied fome ftrokes to her legs. In 

 ihe courfe of a very fhort time, indeed almoft immediately 

 upon the application of this remedy, (he roufed up, and 

 begged me to defill. She continued, for a time, much con- 

 fufed, with involuntary turns of laughter. Two fcruples of 

 white vitriol were then adminiftered, followed, in about fif- 

 teen minutes, by half a dram of ipecacuanha ; notwithftanding 

 which, and alfo having her throat repeatedly tickled with an 

 oiled feather, it was near an hour before flie could be made 

 to puke : however, finally, fhe puked, and, by the afliftance 

 of frequent draughts of warra water, her ftoinach was pretty 

 thoroughly evacuated. 



*' By the affiftance of her friends (lie was kept awake, or, 

 at lead, ilept but little at a time during the night, and thi^ 

 morning appears entirely recovered." 



VACCINE INOCULATION, 



The Medical Committee for the Vaccine Inoculation at 

 Paris has lately publiflied the following notice : 



" The committee has juft inoculated fome cows with the 

 vaccine matter. This experiment has fuccccded. The puf- 

 tules appeared in the moft regular manner, and following 

 the fame progrcfs as in man. The committee will fpcedily 

 publifh a detailed account of this noble expe^imeHt,^ which 

 had been before tried at Rheims with full fuccefs. A great 

 many medical men and curious perfons came to be con-' 

 vinced, by ocular demonftration, of the truth of this fa6l, 

 fo interefting in the hiftory of the vaccine." 



A memoir has been publiflied at Geneva on the vaccine 

 inoculation by Dr. Oder, profetlbr of medicine, in order to 

 be fubmitted to the minifter of the interior, which, after 

 giving an account of this important, difcovery, and of the 

 progrcfs and nature of the difcafe, concludes with the fol- 

 lowing obfervations on the certainty of its being a pre- 

 ventative : — '^ We have acquired certain proof, in two ways, 



A a ij that 



