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inoculation to be the effect of the constitutional affection 

 produced by the first ; and therefore, if it shall be found that 

 no such acceleration takes place, but that the second ino- 

 culation proceeds by a slow progress through all the stages, 

 it is to be concluded, that no constitutional action has taken 

 place from the first insertion of the virus ; and when this is 

 the case, the second inoculation must be regarded as a pri- 

 mary affection, and a third puncture made according to the 

 plan laid down for conducting the second inoculation ; and 

 thus (he says) we may go on until the proper test be ob- 

 tained; or until we be satisfied that the constitution com- 

 pletely resists the action of cow-pock. 



Although small-pox is by no means exterminated from 

 Dublin, among the poor, yet the general substitution of 

 vaccine for variolous inoculation has considerably di- 

 minished the number of patients brought to the hospitals 

 and dispensaries for advice. In the upper ranks of society 

 death from small -pox is unheard-of, and the most exten- 

 sive practitioners acknowledge that a case of small-pox in 

 private practice is a very rare occurrence. And although 

 the reintroduction of small-pox into society would add 

 greatly to the emoluments both of physic and surgery, 

 there is no liberal man in either profession who would not 

 sincerely deplore such a calamity. 



Signed by order, 



January 10,1810. "S. 13. Labatt, Secretary. 



Foundling Hospital, Dublin, Jan. 4, 1810. 



The following Report having been laid before the Governors 

 of the Foundling Plospital, and appearing to be highly 

 satisfactorv: — Ordered, That three thousand copies there- 

 of be printed, for the purpose of their being circulated as 

 generally throughout the United Kingdom as possible. 



By order, 



A. Bailie, Register. 



AS some persons have lately attempted to prejudice the 

 minds of the public by representing vaccine inoculation as 

 a doubtful security against small- pox, limiting its' influence 

 to a certain period, and wishing us to believe that its pre- 

 ventive powers diminish in proportion to the distance of 

 time from inoculation ; — I have, therefore, at the request 

 of the right honourable and honourable the governors of 

 the Foundling Hospital, instituted such experiments as 

 enable me (a second time) to congratulate the public on 

 their successful event. From 



