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Inhered in by much fever : these contained but little matter, 

 were all distinct, scabbed on the seventh or eighth day, wholly 

 liisappeared in tour days after, without leaving any pittincr : 

 and the mother says " not one was Jlat on the top, or had 

 jagged edges i but were all round at the bas.e, and pointed 

 above*.'" 



Four out of this little court had diedf of the natural 

 confluent small-pox ; and one of these, but the day before 

 Ann was taken iH, was in the room playing with this child. 

 I venture it, with much diffidence, ae an opinion, thatAxif 

 HoDGiis had the swine-pox, and on an abraded cuticle mat- 

 terwasingrafted taken by the hands from the small-pox pa- 

 tient, andafo('«/ small-pox produced, wiihihc constitutional 

 fever of varicella probablyincreascd. In her sister Mary, with 

 whom the charm was broken two years sooner-thaa the other, 



* The pustule of the chicken-pox or swine-pox, which are one and 

 the same disease, diifctis from the small-pox to the observant ey«, as one 

 seed ditiers from another, yet resembling, in botany I should say the 

 one was acuminate and wrinkled, aad the other corapresso-plane, and 

 smooth. In other words, the swine- pox pustule is elevated, and jiuckered, 

 and therefore rough; and the smallpox flat, and usjally indented in the 

 middle. The har<dened and jagged -base alto discovers t^ic -small-pox 

 pustule. 



t Mrs. Ho(2ges mentioHS observing herself ^Kr funerals from this court : 

 perhaps many mere were the victims of a disease that might with great facility 

 be banished the e^irth. The disappearance of the small-pox from so many 

 towns in the north of Enuhuid, from the cow-pock inoculation, must give 

 the most heart-felt satisfaction to every nimd endowed with sensibility, 

 and, as being an cpi<ome of the greater conquest, namely, the extirpation 

 throughout the globe of the small- pox, in our hiimble opinion, merits to 

 be recorded as the /xtrt^iv^tr of that efililgent day when the benign radi- 

 ance of the cov/-pock, like the sun, will extend its glorious influence 

 throughout ev^ry clime. Already it has beew partiallv received in all the 

 ■civili/ed countries of the habitable globt, and promises ere long to realize 

 the just expectations of its warmest advocates, by belne generally adopted 

 from the judicious and proper interference of the legislative powers.— 

 When the small-pox was £rst introduced into Otaiieite, and the destruc- 

 tion was so great as to threaten the entire subversion of the state, these 

 ignorant savages formed laws by which they stopped the progress of the 

 calamity. — Hchv much more reason have we then to expect the sub- 

 jugation of this formidable enemy of the human race, iu a more en- 

 lightened period and from neore enlightened statesmen, an easier mean 

 being now in our power, than restrictive laws to prevent infection, namely, 

 the cow-pock inoculation, which, perhaps, might be enacted in each 

 fctate ; for ko one is born for binnc/j alonn, each being placed with re- 

 ference to the community ! And thus there being no longer left any 

 tcwcl for the small-pox to blaze up into a great national calamity, hence 

 the delightful prospect of the annihilation of the small-pox through- 

 out the whole habitable globe. The Nabobs in India having com- 

 niandcd general vaccination, millions have obeyed, and the small-pox has 

 ajfcady UuuifiarcU lu the East. 



D 4 I observed 



