SOS On Vaccinution. 



to carr}' it to the Skinner- street station, where it was fnoctt- 

 latcd, to be examined so often as required by the rule? of the 

 institution. This, she told me, was entered in the books at 

 the station. It therefore cannot be known that the child 

 went regularly through the cow-pock. 



Cases 5 and 6. Mis. Little's two children. Dr. Rowley's 

 77th case. He states the small-pox happening three years 

 after vaccination : but from every information I could ob- 

 tain from the mother and others, there is no proof that they 

 passed regularly through the cow-pock, and consequently 

 they ought not to have been brought forward as cases 

 against vaccination. 



Case 7. Mr. Nicholson's boy, the doctor's 35th case: 

 " Small-pox two years after vaccination." The regularity 

 of the vaccination is not proved ; and there is no other evi- 

 dence of the child's having the small-pox, than Dr. Rowley's 

 saying there was one small-pock on its posteriors, from 

 which he co:ild have taken matter ! 



Cases. Mr. Rice's child, case 197of Dr. Rowley. I 

 could obtain no other information, than that Mr. Rice had 

 been dead above a year, and the family removed, but could 

 not learn where. 



Cases 9 and 10. Elizabeth and William Keen, Dr. Row- 

 ley's 37th and 36th cases ; both of which he slates thus: 

 " Vaccinated May 10th, 1805 ; small -pox 29th of May." 



I saw these two children, with, their mother, in Novem- 

 ber 1805. Her relation was as follows: — She has three 

 children, one of whom took the small-pox in the natural 

 way, and had them very severely ; -nnd there was no doubt 

 of the other two having cavight the infection ; but, by the 

 advice of some friends, she had them vaccinated, hoping 

 thereby to lessen the, virulence of the small-pox. The result 

 justified the procedure : the two vaccinated children passed 

 through the small-pox so favourably, that their healths were 

 scarcely impaired, and it was not easy to determine which 

 of the two diseases predominated in the constitution j whereas . 

 the one that was not vaccinated, languished under a most 

 distressing confluent small-pox, which left numerous inde- 

 lible marks all over the face j besides a large and disgusting 



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