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ever, it has been found that these supposed instances origi- 

 nated gcp.crally in error, misrepresentation, or the difficulty 

 oF discriminating between smal!-pox and other eruptions, 

 no case having come to the knowledge of your committee, 

 duly authenticated by respectable and compeicnr pidges, of 

 genuine small-pox succeeding the regular vaccine disease. 



The practice of vaccination becomes every day more ex- 

 tended ; and, when it is considered that the period at which 

 it came into general u^e in Ireland is to be reckoned from 

 so late a date, your connnittee is of opinion that it has made 

 already as rapid a progress as could be expected. 



(Signed) J.xMiZs Clkghorn, 

 Daniel Mills, 

 Hugh Fekguson. 



XLVIII. Report of the Royal College of Physicians of 

 Edinburgh on Vaccinalion*, 



Physic'ans Hall, Edinburgh, 

 GENTLEMEN, ' November 26, ISOG. 



X KE Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh have but 

 little opportunity themselves of making ob.-ervations on vac- 

 cination, as that practice is entirely conducted by surgeon 

 apothecaries, and otiier medical practitioners not of their 

 college, and as the eirects produced by it are so inconsidera-' 

 ble and slight, that the aid of a physician is never required. 



The college know that in Edinburgh it is universally ap- 

 proved of by the profession, and by the higher and middle 

 ranks of the community, and that it has been much more 

 generally adopted by the lower orders of the people than 

 ever the inoculation for small-pox was, and they believe the 

 same to obtain all over Scotland. 



With regard to any causes which have hitherto prevented 

 its general iidoption, they are acquainted with none, except 

 the negligence or ignorance of parents among the common 

 people, or the.r mistaken ideas of the impropriety or crimi- 

 nality of being accessary to the production of any disease 



* From the House of CoiBmoiis printed Report of Ctli July 1807. 



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