" Vaccination. '. ISfl'^ 



A Medical Gmllenian has invented a new mode of secret 

 Writinsj;, which can never be effaced but by destroying the 

 paper;" and which produces ten or twelve perfect copies 

 as soon as one, with no more trouble to the writer. The 

 same Gentleman, we understand, wrote the article " Cipher" 

 for the new Cvcloptedia, which has excited considerable 

 attention in the literary world. 



A New Edition of Mr. Parkes's Chemical Catechism, which 

 has been for some time expected, has just made its appear- 

 ance. We observe in it some very considerable additions 

 and improvements. The "Essay on the Utility of Che- 

 mistry to the Arts and Manufactures,'* by the same author, 

 and which makes a part of the above volume, may be had 

 by itself. 



VACCINATION. 



■ IM. Champagny, the French minister of the interior, has 

 presented to the emperor Napoleon a report of the present 

 state of vaccination in France. His majesty had directed 

 M.Champa^rny to obtain authentic materials for this report, 

 by inviting the prefects and clergy of all the departments in 

 the empire to transmit to Pans official documents on the 

 subject. M. Champagny has displayed great zeal for the 

 interests of humanity in the peifurmance of the task thus 

 imposed upon him ; and in the niasterly report he has pre- 

 sented to the emperor on the subject, he records the names 

 of such of the French clergy as have been most active in 

 the propagation of the vaccine among their parishioners. 

 I'he emperor, on perusing the report, ordered M. Cham- 

 pagny to intimate to these, enlightened ministers of the 

 Christian religion, that their names sliould be remembered in 

 the future distribution of church preferments. 



M. Champaj:nv, in his repoit, expresses his regret that 

 the vaccine should have met with some opposition from 

 the ignorant in France, in consequence of the translation of 

 some pamphlets from the English language, and suggest* 

 that his majesty should i^Hic some restriction upon the cir- 

 culation of works of a tendency hostile to vaccination. 



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