?54 Continuation of the Comparison of the 



iuoculatcd small-pox. The insertion of the humour of a 

 brute into thehuniau body in rw/iirar conception led a priori 

 to llic expectation of a loathsome distemper. But fortu- 

 iiatelv for the human race a more benign disease than the 

 «mall-pox was the consequence, and one only similar to it, 

 in having a somewhat resembling pustule, and in the pro- 

 perty, of ever after securing from that fatal and loathsome 

 distemper. 



" Every practitioner in medicine," says Dr. .Tenner, 

 ♦' who has extensively inoculated with the small -pox, or 

 has attended many of those who have had the distemper in 

 the natural wav, must acknowledge that he has frequently 

 seen scrophidous aflcctions, in some form or another, sonje- 

 tinies rather quickly showing themselves after the recovery 

 of the patients. Conceiving this fact to be admitted, as I 

 presume it must be by all who have carefully attended to the 

 subject, may 1 not ask, whether it does not appear probable 

 that the (aneral introduction of the small-pox into Europe 

 has itot been among the least conducive means in exciting 

 that formidable foe to health? Having attentively \\atched 

 the efteets of the eow-pox in this respect, I am happy in 

 being able to declare, that the disease does not appear to Jiavc 

 the least tendency to produce this destructive malady." 



To this authority of Dr. Jenncrwemay add the following 

 iVom the evidence delivered before the committee of the 

 house of commons: 



Dr. Nelson, physician to tlie Vaccine Institution, de- 

 clares, that he had never observed any disease to liave been 

 tXiili'd by the vaccine inoculation: on the contrary., the 

 ^jeallh of sickly children was in general nmch mended by 

 it. 



Dr. Baillic declares, he has not known an instance in 

 which the vaccine inoculation had introdvced or exci'r] any 

 disease; but he had known instances of the absorbem glands 

 beeon)ing cnlarced and serophuious, soon afier a paiieut had 

 uudertjone the small-pox: these instances happen suffi- 

 elentlv often to make a general impression upon the minds 

 uf medical men, that the constitution was sometniies ex- 

 cited to form scrophula, in eonse(]uencc of the irritatioa 

 '.!)at it had previously undergone during the small-pox. 



Dr..IamesSims, president of the Medical Society of Lon- 

 don, nave it as his opinion, that the vaccine disease does 

 not imroducc any other disorder into the human frame. 

 Mr. Cline, surgeon, lecturer on anatomy, state*, that he 



believci 



