and Cow-Pock Inoadation. Qi 



amongst all which has been said not a single example ap- 

 pears of death from cow-pock. 



In behalf of my first assertion, I can recollect numerous 

 facts ; but as I write for the public, and on a most import- 

 ant subject, I will state nothing in support of that asser- 

 tion, >vhich shall rest solely upon my own credibility or 

 memory; I will therefore confine myself to the three fol- 

 lowing cases : 



Mr. John Phlllpotts, of this city, well known and esteemed 

 in his profession of the law, was inoculated with the small- 

 pox in his infancy, together with an elder sister, by their 

 father, with the same matter, at the same time, and both 

 were nursed by the . mother, and two persons accustomed 

 to small-pox, of good judgment, and now livinor. The 

 young lady had the disease to an alarming virulence; the 

 boy's arm inflamed, he was indisposed, and had four or five 

 eruptions on different parts of his body; and Mrs. Phlll- 

 potts says, they appeared to her to go on after the manner 

 of other sniall-pox pustules. In his twenty-first year I was 

 desired to visit him, as being ill with some eruptive fever. 

 lie had spots just appearing in diflerent parts of his bodv ; 

 tbe next time I saw hini, notbing but the positive assertion 

 of himself and his friends, that he had had the small-pnx, 

 could have n)ade me doubt that they were variolous. On 

 the following day that doubt was entirelv renioved. He 

 had a plentiful crop of pustules of the distinct kind, which 

 went regularly through their stages of suppuration and scab- 

 bing. 



In September 1704, I inoculated a daughter of Mr. John 

 Rudhall, of this city, with matter which I had taken my- 

 self from a variolous subjcrt. The child's arm inflamed, 

 she was indisposed, and had a few eruptions which did not 

 suppurate. About twelve months alter, I inoculated her 

 again, and she had then tho distinct small -pox, with all its 

 usual circumstances. 



Mr. Cooke, an eminent apothecary of this city, desired 

 me to see a patient who liad some vears befoiie been inocu- 

 lated by a practitioner of respectabihtv and experience lor 

 the small-pox, together with ten others, in the gentleman's 

 own small-pox house. Tlie patient supposed i\vdi he then 

 received and went through the disease, and the inoculator 

 assured him of it. When we visited him he was then blind 

 with sniall-pux, which went through its usual staiies. 



In support of my second assertion, I need not stake my 

 own crediliility at all. My experience can onlv coincide 

 with the testimonies already before the pubhc, of ihc small- 



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