$2 Vaccine Inoculation. 



a sealed note, containing the -author's name, addressed to 

 the society before the 1st of October 1S05. 



IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT ST. PETERSBURGH. 



In the sitting* of February the 1 1th, the president, M. von 

 Novosilzof, presented to the academy a stone which about 

 eight years ago fell from the atmosphere in the neighbour- 

 hood of Karkof, and which is perfectly similar to that which 

 fell last year in Normandy, on the appearance of a fire-ball. 

 As a particular account of the circumstances by which 

 the fall of this stone was accompanied is expected, the 

 president requested that it might be subjected to chemi- 

 cal analysis, as well as the piece of native iron sent to the 

 academy by the celebrated professor Pallas, which is also 

 considered as an atmospherical production. 



XIX. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles, 



VACCINE INOCULATION. 



JL he following letter from Dr. de Carro to the editors of 

 the Biidiutlicque Britannique, dated Vienna, March 27, 1 804, 

 contains the latest account of the success of the vaccine 

 inoculation in the East: 



" You have seen by my preceding letters, and my work 

 on the oriental vaccination, what rapid progress this happy 

 discovery is making in Asia. We had never before heard that 

 it had been extended beyond the peninsula of India. A letter 

 from Bombay states that the vaccine inoculation is prac- 

 tised every where from Cape Comorin to Delhi. Ihave 

 experienced a new pleasure, — rthat of having laid the fornix 

 dation for vaccination in Persia. 



" Dr. Milne, physician to the English factory at Bassora, 

 having vaccinated a great number of children in that place, 

 experienced an interruption in vaccinating immediately from 

 arm to arn); and had recourse to threads, lancets, an,d pieces 

 of glass containing vaccine matter. Being vexed to find 

 that all these means failed, he wrote to me, in the month 

 of May last year, earnestly bejrging me to send him vaccine 

 matter by the first opportunity. I took every care possible 

 to collect matter on ivory lancets, and to impregnate lint 

 with it, according to the excellent method of Messrs. Ball- 

 hora and Stromeycr : but Dr. Milne, in the mean time, was 

 obliged to quit Bassora and to retire to Bashirc or Abushe^ 

 her, ii\ Persia. As my packet, which was dispatched from 



Vienna 



