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Pox Hospital April 1803, and that in June 1804 she broke 

 out in the head, ears, and chest, with cow-pox mange, 

 cow-pox bkieish abscesses : ivliea the cold iveather came, 

 they were letter. In May 1805, the same cow-pox mange, 

 cow-pox abscesses, blueish in appearance, attacked the child 

 in every part of the body, from the head to the foot j there 

 were nothing but cow-pox mange, cow-pox gatherings of 

 matter, cow-pox ulcers, excoriations : the child was a mere 

 Lazarus, covered all over with sores and disease j a most 

 disgusting spectacle of terrible disease." 



On my visiting this child in October 1805, the mother 

 told me that it was vaccinated in May 1803. There were 

 about 200 vaccinated at the same time. She never carried 

 her to be seen afterwards. There ivas no regular pustuley 

 lut only a little sore without biflanimation, which soon healed 

 up. The child was particularly healthy till April 1804, when 

 she had eruptions on the head and breast, which continued 

 four viontlis. She was then quite well, till May last, when 

 the eruptions came again, and ext(?nded all over the body : 

 they arc now, for the most part, healed. She says also, that 

 Dr. Rowley gave it as his opinion, that the sore was neither 

 cow-puck nor small-pox, but something between both. 



From both these statements it appears that the child was 

 inoculated for the cow-pock, and afterwards had an erup- 

 tion ; but the doctor has carefully omitted that, which would 

 have made it no evidence in his favour, namely, that the 

 chdd did not take the cow -pock, although inoculated for it, 

 and that, for cleA'en months after the inoculation, she was 

 particularly healthy. 



There is some diiference also in the time of the eruption : 

 the doctor states it to commence in June, and to become 

 letter m cold iveather ; but the mother says' it commenced 

 in April, and continued four months, {till Aiignst, the hot- 

 test inonth in the year,) when the child was quite well, till 

 the May following. 



From my own examination I am induced to believe that 

 the eruption was very far from being all over the body ; 

 but it was sufficient for the doctor's purpose, if he could 

 any way twist iacts to favour the antivaccine principles, 



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