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among their children, or the difficulty or impossibility, in 

 some of our country districts, of procuring vaccine nutter, 

 or a proper person to inoculate. 



The evidence in favour of vaccination appeared to the 

 Royal College of Physicians of Edinhurgh so strong and 

 decisive, that in May last they spontaneously and unani- 

 mously elected Dr. Jenner an honorary fellow of their col- 

 lege, — a mark of distinction which they very rarely confer, 

 and which they conline almost exclusively to foreign phy- 

 sicians of the first eminence. 



They did this with a view to publish their opinion with 

 regard to vaccination, and in testimony of their conviction 

 of the immense benefits which have been, and which will 

 in future be derived to the world, from inoculation for the 

 cow-pox, and as a mark of their sense of Dr. Jenner's very 

 great merits and ability in introducing and promoting this 

 invaluable practice. ^ 



I have the honour to be, 

 Gentlemen, 

 Your most obedient humble servant, 

 Th. Spens, C. R. M. Ed. Pr. 

 To the Royal College 

 of Physicians of London. 



XLIX. Report of the Royal College of Surgeons of Loudon 

 on Vaccination*. 



March 17,1807. 



JL HE court of assistants having received a letter from the 

 Royal College of Physician^; of London, addressed to this 

 college, stating that his majesty had been graciously pleased, 

 in compliance with an address from the lionourable House 

 of Commons, to direct his Royal College of Physicians of 

 London to inquire into the state of vaccination in the united 

 kingdom, to report their observations and opinion upon that 

 practice, upon the evidence adduced in its support, and upon 

 the causes which have hith.eito retarded its -general adop- 

 tion; thai the college were then engagpd in the invesliga- 



• From the House of Commons printed Report of 'Jth July 1807. 



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