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watched, in order ihat she might not catch the natural small- 

 pox; and Dr. Turtonand Mr. Heaviside were justly appre- 

 hensive of-' inoculation. Their good sense at once, however, 

 coincided that she should be inoculated bv nie with vaccine 

 matter, and she passed through the disease without one day's 

 iMne.-J.s, with only the slight inconvcnieace of the pustule 

 on the arm. 



5. Pregnancy. — " 1 have inoculated," says Dr. Mar- 

 shal!, " a great number of females at diflcrent periods of 

 pregnancy, and never observed their cases to differ in any 

 respect from those of my other patients. Indeed the disease 

 is so mild, that it seems as if it might at all times be com- 

 municated with the most perfect safety*." The same suc- 

 cess is recorded by Henry Jenner, who relates a case, where 

 he inoculated a person a week previous to the accouche- 

 ment f. 



6. Old age no exception. — For confirmation of the truth 

 of his position, I shall give the report of the committee of 

 vaccine inoculation t at Paris, instituted by order of govern- 

 ment. 



" Report. The vaccine affection appears to us to be 

 of a nature the most benign, and which hardlv deserves to 

 be tailed a malady : not so nuich as one accident occurred to 

 the hundred and fifty subjects who have been inoculated. 



*' The vaccine inoculation is no less practicable than 

 exempt from accidents, whatever h the uiie of the persons 

 on whom it is performed. Infants have been inoculated in 

 the arms of iheir nurses; otliers at the age of one, two, and 

 three years to fifteen. Persons of tlic"ao-c of forty, and 

 even fifty to teventij year?, have also been inoculated, and 

 aUvavs with the same sueci-ss." 



IjOstly, the cdir-pock doc; not have any lad humours 

 after it. 



The snjall-nox has been justly accused of often leavini"- 

 the body in that state f)f wretched de))ility, as to make lite 

 afterwards only aeon inucd scries of excruciating affliction. 

 Besides other horrid disfigurations of the person, scropkuia, 

 or the king's evil, not unfiequcntly follows the natural or 



- Fn.m Jciincr's In<|iiiry, p. i fw., second edition. 



t Vide jcnnci ', liKjuiry, ji. 1/4. 



"t The nioT iiistinj.M:i^t:cJ jj'iv:.iri;ins at Pnris were sr^'ected fiir this 

 p'lrp'ce; as, Tlioiiiit, ciircctoi of thi school (if modlciiie ; Piin.), jTofCsS' r 

 'j'' plivsic in ihe <cIk)')1 of mcdicMic ; r.i;ic.ii\, clinic. 1 pn.'fessor; Parndr, 

 ■f,s|KCwr «f :h' militarv !iospit;i!s, fee. ^<ic. 



inoculated 



