and the Progrefs of the Vaccine Inoculation, 397 



fulled on this occafion, informed Stromeyer*, in a letter, 

 that he confidered the difference which nad been oBferved 

 as merely accidental, and not as depending on the difference 

 of the matter. Even experience (hows, that in regard to 

 the principal object, the property of preventing thc~lmall- 

 pox infection, the vaccine matter of doctors Jenner and 

 Pearfon, and that produced in Hanover, are entirely the 

 fame." 



(No. %. p. 126.) " That the cow-pock does not infecT, 

 but by the immediate contact of wounded places, has been 

 confirmed by experience in Hanover ; as has alio been the 

 afiertion of Dr. Pearfon, that thofe who have once had the 

 common fmall-pox, or the genuine cow-pock, cannot be 

 affected a fecond time by either of thefe difeafes, even though 

 the vaccination be feveral times repeated. In the laft cafe, 

 however, fuppuratingpuftules, furrounded with a little red - 

 nefs, arife fometimes from the puncture ; but they are not 

 only unattended with the chara&eriftic form of the real 

 cow-pock puilules, but the general re-action on the fyftem 

 connected with it." 



II. Cow-pock introduced into Portugal. (From the Lisbon 



Gazette of 31ft July, 1802.) 



<c Doctor Francis Manuel da Paula, approved phyficiani 

 Sec. having applied himfelf fuccefsfnlly to the vaccine ino- 

 culation, makes known to the public, jhat he is provided 

 with matter of the bed quality for inoculation from England, 

 by means of Dr. Domeirf, who firft propagated the difor- 

 der before he left this country. The above phyfician Da 

 Paula has continued the inoculation from children of three 

 months old and upwards, among which number were his 

 own children." 



III. Difcovery of Vaccine-Pox among the American Cows, 

 (From the American Medical Repofitory, vol. v. p. 93. 

 1801.) 



<c We are happy to find that our fuggeflion to phvfieians 

 in the United States, to inquire for the vaccine oifeafe 

 among the cows of this country (fee our vol. iv. p. 322 ), 

 has produced the defired effecT:. The coincidence of the Al- 

 lowing articles of information, derived from different refpedt- 



• Ncues Hannovr. Magazin 1S00, and Hufeland's Journal dii Prakc 

 Heilk, v. xo. pact 3. 



f Dr. Domcir is the attending and travelling phyfician of his roval 

 highnefs the duke of SufTcx ; anp after great difficulties were overcome, 

 and bellowing cnuch pains, he introduced the co\v-i>ock inoculation with 

 matter funiilhed from the Vaccine Inftitution of London. 



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