Cow-Pock with the Small-Pox. 247 



latlon at Luton, during the progress of a malignant small- 

 pox, which carried ofll" one-halt of those who w ere attacked 

 by it in the natural way. Iii the niiust of this fatality, 

 twelve hundred and fifieen paupers were inoculated through 

 the lun:;ianity of the Hon, and Kcv. Mr. William Stuart, 

 many of whom refused all preparatory medicines, and were 

 besides addicted to the use of strong liquors : nevertheless, 

 out of the tivclve hundred and Jijtttn on\y Jive died — all of 

 whom 7tere in/ants under four months old. Seven hundred 

 adult people of better condition, in the same neighbourhood, 

 were inoculated a short time afterwards, and with the like 

 good success with the former. 



" From this view of the matter it is pretty evident, I 

 think, that this operation ought, in general, to be post- 

 poned to a later period, which" is pointed out by the child 

 having cut all its first teeth." 



Dr. Macdonaid justly remarks, " that the deaths of in- 

 fants often happen under circumstances the more distress- 

 ing." 



'* Before mr lie the records of two unfortunate families. 

 In the one, a father and four of his children were inocu- 

 lated for the small-pox : the eruptions proved of the con- 

 lluent kind : tiiv children out of the four died. The other 

 IS a young widow, who lost her husband at the early age 

 of twenty-four. One infant at the breast was left' her, 

 which, in Ivtr pitiful situation, constituted her only con- 

 solation. Soon after, the small-pox began to rage in the 

 city where she lived ; she therefore was advised by her 

 friends to inoculate her little boy. With reluctance, as if 

 presaging her impending misfortune, she consented. Her 

 fears, ulas ! were but too well grounded ; on the day pre- 

 tfdin 1 the eruption the child was seized with convulsive 

 (its, and expired on tlic tenth day. 



" One smiling boy, her last sweet hope, she warms, 

 Hiish'd in her bosom, circled in her arms; 

 D,iui;lircr fjf woe ! ere inorn in vain caress'd, 

 Clunj? the cold bahc (ipon thy milkless breast; 

 With feeble cries rhv last sad aid req\iir'd, 

 Strctfh'd its snti" limbs, and on thy lap expired."— Drt/KvV, 



3dly, Dentition is found to le a period in uhich inoculation 

 was hazardous. 



The small-pox is usually ushered in by convulsions in 



children at everv atre. The period of dentition being; very 



^)4 liable 



