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now to be ranked among- its warmest supporters, the tnJth 

 seems to be established as firmly as (he nature of such a 

 question admits ; so that the College of PhyiiQians conceive 

 the public may reasonably look forward, with sonie'dcgree 

 of hope, to the tijuc when all opposition shall cease, and the 

 general concurrence of mankind shall at lensrth be able to 

 put an end to the ravages at least, if not to the existence, of 

 the small-pox. 



Lucas Pepys, President. 



Royal College of Physicians, 

 10th April 1S07. 



James Hervey, Register. 



XLVII. Report of the King and Queen's College of Phij- 

 sicians in Ireland on Vaccination*-. 



,^ Dublin, Nov. n, 1S06. 



J- HE practice of vaccination was introduced into this city 

 about the beginning of the year 1801, and appears to have 

 made inconsiderable progress at first. A variety of causes 

 operated to retard its genera! adoption, amongst which the 

 novelty of the practice, and the extraordinary effects attri- 

 buted to vaccination, would naturally take the lead. 



Variolous inoculation had been lone, almost' exclu- 

 sively, in the hands of a particular branch of the pro- 

 fession, whose prejudices and interests were strongly op- 

 posed to the new practice; and by their being the usual 

 medical attendants in families, and especially employed in 

 the diseases of children, their opinions had greater effect 

 upon the minds of parents. The small-pox is rendered a 

 much less formidable disease in this country by the fre- 

 quency of inoculation for it, than it is in other {iarts of his 

 majesty's dominions, where prejudices against inoculation 

 have prevailed ; hence parents, not unnaturally, objected to 

 the introduciiou of a new disease, rather than not recur to 

 that, with the mildness and safety of which they were well 

 acquainted. 



=5^ From Report on Varciu;ition, printed by order of il.e House of Com- 

 nioiis, dated 8tli July !S07. 



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