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XLIL Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



VACCINE INOCULATION. 



The Allsemeine Literatur-Zeitung, of 24th of July, re- 

 marks that « it has been shown in some o the German 

 publications on the cow-pock, that this method of inocu- 

 lation was known in Germany before it was reconimended 

 by Dr. Jenner; and the case appears to be tbe same m 

 l4nce. M. Audouard of Castres, now at Paris, seer tary 

 to the society of the practice of med.cmc at Montpclher 

 has discovered that the method of vaccme inoculation was 



g 4 practised 



