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cipal authorities and the most zealous members of the fa- 
culty, charged with the preservation of this invaluable spe- 
cific, as a sacred deposit, for which they are accountable to 
the king and to posterity. 
This ‘being accomplished, it was the next care of the di- 
rector to carry this part of the expedition from Ameriea to 
Asia, crowned with the most brilliant success, and, with it, 
the comfort of humanity. Some difficulties having been sur- 
mounted, he embarked in the port of Acapulco for the Phi- 
lippine islands, that being the point at which, if attainable, 
it was originally intended that the undertaking should be 
terminated. 
The bounty of ie Providence having vouchsafed to 
second the great and pious designs of the king, Balmis hap- 
pily performed the voyage in little more sien: two months, 
carrying. with him, from New Spain, twenty-six children, 
destined to be vaccinated in succession as before; and, as 
many of them were infants, they were committed to the 
care of the matron of the Foundling Hospital at La Corunna, 
who, in this as well as the former voyages, conducted her- 
self in a manner to merit apprabation. The expedition 
having arrived at the Philippines, and propagated the specifie. 
in the islands subject to his catholic majesty, Balmis, hav- 
ing concluded his philanthropic commission, concerted with 
the captain-general the means of extending the beneficence 
of the king and the glory of his august name to the re- 
motest confines of Asia. 
In point of fact, the cow-pox has been disseminated 
through the vast archipelago of the Visayan islands, whose 
chiefs, accustomed to wage perpetual war with us, have laid’ 
down their arms, adusiring the generosity of an enemy who 
conferred upon them the blessings of health and life at the: 
time when they were labouring under the ravages of an epi- 
demic small-pox. The principal persons of the Portuguese. 
colonies, and of the Chinese empire, manifested themselves 
no less beholden when Balmis reached Macao and Canton ; 
in both which places he accomplished the introduction of 
fresh virus in all its activity, by the means already related ;. 
aresult which the English, on repeated. trials, had failed to, 
procure 
