S63 Proposal for encouraging Vacc'mat'wn. 



cow-peck inoculation universal, than to prohibit, as already 

 proposed, the small-pox inoculaiion*. 'Jlie same gentle- 

 man (Dr. Pearson) who made these observations, has lately 

 explained to the Vaccine Institution that he had been dis- 

 couraged and induced to lay aside his plan, from the opi- 

 nion ot a great number of Iriendj, who almost universally 

 disapproved it as impracticable in the execution, and im- 

 prudent for the author. He has accordingly lately pro- 

 posed two things, by way of rendering vaccination less 

 liable to failure <, and more extensively practised. 



1. That eaeh person Inoculated at the Institution shall 

 have a ticket signed by three members of the medical esta- 

 blishment, attesting that the vaccination has been duly un- 

 dergone; and that if the person so attested shall subsequent- 

 ly take the small-pox, such person shall be entitled to ten 

 guineas from the Institution. 



2. It is proposed that the medical establishment f shall 

 grant certificates, which may have the effect of diplomas to 

 qualify pupils, by attending the practice and lectures at the 

 Institution. 



It is remarkable, and indeed singular, that notwithstand- 

 ing the Institution has been established near six years, not 

 a single authenticated case of small-pox subsequently to 

 the cow-pock has occurred in the practice. 



Of the inucnlation of persons mho have iindergone ike cow- 

 pock 30 to .50 yp.nrs ago; with some anecdotes of Farmer 

 Jesty, the Vaccina i or of his family in 1774. 

 Mr. Benjamin Jesty, farmer, of Downshay, accompanied 

 by his son Mr. Robert Jesty, lately visited the Vaccine 

 Institution in Broad Street, where he proved, by authen- 

 tic evidence of various kinds — 



1 . That he took the cow-pock from his own cows about 

 50 years ago, and although he had been oi'len in the way of 

 the small-pox, he had remained unsusceptible. He has a 

 $car on one hand from the cow-pock. 



2. That knowing many instances besides himself of 

 persons never taking the small-pox who had taken the 

 cow-pock in dairy farms ; and that it was a harndess com- 

 plaint; also being of opinion that he should avoid ingraft- 

 ing diseases of human subjects, such as evil, lues, mad- 



* S.-c Philosophical Magnzine, vol. xv, Nn. 57, p. 81. 



+ The medical establishment consists of — Doctors Pearson, Nihell, and 

 Nelson; Surgeor.s txtraordiiiary, Thomas Koatc, Thom.is Payne, and 

 Thompson Foster, esquires; Surgeons in ordinary, John Gunning, J. C. 

 Carpue, and J, Doratl, cstjuires; Visiting r.potliecaries, Francis Rivers, 

 Augustus Brande, and P.dc Bruyn, estiuirct. 



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