Cow-Pock iiith the Small-Pox. 2.5 j 



believes that the cow-pock does not excite scrophula, or aiiv 

 othtr ili«easc, which is sometimes tlic case with the iiiocti- 

 lal'd jinall-pox. 



Mr. Jaini 5 Simpson, surgeon to the Surry di^pcusarv, 

 and to jhc Magdalta hospital, has practised vaccine inocu- 

 lation, and has inoculated between fifty and sixty patients, 

 and in no one instance had any symptoms occurred in- 

 jurious to the partinocuhued, or constitution of the patients; 

 and he believes them to be completely secure froui the 

 small-pox. In one particular instance, the patient, a child 

 of nine months, was covered with a crust commonly calkd 

 the cnisla laclca, which generally covers the body from 

 head to foot, and had resisted the usual remedies h)r that 

 disease : but on tlie tenth day after the infection it began 

 to disappear, and on the twelfth day was wholly gone; 

 during which time not a particle of medicine was giv^ea to it, 

 and it continued in perfect health ever since. 



Dr. Willan, who practised the cow-pock in the absence 

 of Dr. Woodvillc on a large scale, who is more conversant 

 with everv species of eruptive diseases than any other prac- 

 titioner, I believe, in Europe, relates in his reports of the 

 diseases of London. 



•* The vaccine disease has not, in any case I have seen, 

 been attended with glandular swellings, ulcers, cutaneous 

 affections, diseases of the lunirs, puffy tumours of soft parts, 

 enlargement of bones, ophthalmia, deafness, dyspnoea, 

 anasarca, hydroihorax, which so often occur after the small- 

 pox, whether produced by contagion or inoculation. This 

 circumstance alone would cast the balance in favour of the 

 cow-pock, even were this disease on a level in some other 

 respects with the small-pox." 



Its security as a prophylactic against the small-pox has 

 been before considered. 



XLIII. E'laktcenth 



