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XLlL Comparhon of the CoW'Poch uith the Sinall-Po.r, 

 By Dr. Thoknton. 



[Continued fiom p. '52.] 



iNiETTHER is tlic cow-pock attended With sore tliroat or 

 diarrhrca. Its entrance into the system may be marked hv a 

 k'ver oF one or two days' continuance ; hut this should ex- 

 cite no alarm, as there is no danger from it, and'shorlly the 

 A\hole constitutional afloction will have subsided. lu the 

 imall-pox there is often a sccondnri/ fever more to be apjire- 

 hended than the first. When the i'ond parent had hoped that 

 the daneer \\'as over ; when the eyes begin to open ; the swell- 

 inc: of the hnibs to subside, dawning reason to return, and 

 food be craved after, — expectation fancies that her doubting 

 iicars have ceased for ever; — soon the dcceitfvd calm is only' 

 the prelude to a more dnxfiil scene: the maUer formed in 

 the first fever, or effort of Nature, is again taken up into the 

 frame, and, with weakened powers, assailed in every part by 

 the circ?>latcd poisoit, unable further to resist, she yields at 

 last to the renewed attack of her most powerful enemy. 



VroDi extctisive cxptijeitvp, k maif nofo be prono/mced, 

 fhiit nr.iic die of the tvii -pock, e'Uhtr taken naturallij or 

 frovi iaoi/ilalioii. 



The cow-pock vcrer kills, the vatural and iunciilaied small- 

 pox not uvfrujuciithi. — If the whole merit of the cause of 

 vdeivn- !i!vc/(li/tio}> depended on this single point, it might 

 rest secure as the greatest discovery ever made. J'hc coir- 

 hnck vever dcsilrvijs life! — Glorious tidings ? — liappy aiuiun- 

 Viation ! — I who hare lost by variolous uiocrrlation my first- 

 t)orn child; a bov who, not alone in his parent's eye, but 

 to all who knew liim, promised the fulfilment of every wish, 

 have a ju:itright to exult in the present fortunate discovery 

 of Dr. .lenner. How was his lovely form defaced, and what 

 vierc his sufferings, before death, snatched him to an earlv 

 tomb, has been drawn by me with a trembling hand, when 

 1 wrote my detail of the symptoms and account of ihe ra- 

 vages of the sniall-pox f — So faithful is the portrait, that I 

 liave often witnessed tears to flow in abundance when this 

 history h^is been read by others, as bringing to recollection 

 manv * similar distressing scene exhibited by some favourite 

 child, or bv >omc friend's or relation's child. — Mi/ tears 

 are now wiped away, aiid may theirs be also, bv the plcasini^ 

 %lew of the pretci^t cundicrnted condition of humanitij ! 



The cnu'-pock never disjlgures the couiitciiojice. 



To all who have the relined sentiment of taste, and con- 



leaip ate 



