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indubitable marks of having had llic small-pox, be repeatedly 

 inoculated for that disease, a pusiulc may be produced, the 

 matter of which will comimuiicate the disease to those who 

 have not been previously infected. 



XIV. That although it is ditlicult to determine precisely 

 the number of exceptions to the practice, the medical coun- 

 cil are fully convinced that the failure of vaccination, as a 

 preventive of the small-pox, is a very rare occurrence. 



XV. That of the immense number who hare been vacci- 

 nated in the army and navy, in different parts of the united 

 kingdom, and in every quarter of the globe, scarcely aiiv 

 instances of such failure have been reported to the committee 

 but those which arc said to have occurred in the metropolis 

 or its vicinity. 



XVI. That the medical council are fully assured, that in 

 very many places in which the small-pox raged with great 

 violence, the disease has been speedily and effectually arrested 

 in its progress, and in some populous cities wholly exter- 

 minated, by the practice of vaccination. 



XVII. That the practice of inoculation for the small-pox, 

 on its first introduction into this countrvj was opposed and 

 very much retarded, in consequence of misrepresentations 

 and arguments drawn from assumed facts, and of miscar- 

 riages arising from the want of correct information, similar 

 to those now brought forward against vaccination, so that 

 nearly fifty years elapsed before small-pox inoculation was 

 fully established. 



XVIII. That by a reference to the bills of mortalitv, it 

 will appear that, to the unfortunate neglect of vaccination, 

 and to the prejudices raised against it, we may in a great 

 measure attribute the loss of nearly two thousand lives by 

 the small-pox, in this metropolis alone, within the present 

 year. 



XiX. That the fcv/ instances of failure, cither in the 

 inoculation of the cow-pox, or of the sniall-pox, ought not 

 to be considered as objections to either practice, but merely 

 as deviations from the ordinary course of nature. 



XX. Thut If a comparison be ni.ade between the preserva- 

 tive ('fleets of vaccination, niid those oi' inoculation lor the 

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