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ness, Sec, by inoculating from the cow, he determined to 

 prefer vaccination in his own family. Accordingly, when 

 the small-pox prevailed in the town and ne glibourhood 

 of Yetminster, in 1774, where he then lived, he inoculated 

 Jiis wife, Mrs. Jesty, and his two sons Robert and Benja- 

 min, with matter' from his cov>'s. Benjamin showed a 

 large cicatrix, on the middle of the upper arm, left by this 

 inoculation 31 years ago. The two sons were inoculated 

 for the small -pox, without effect, 15 years ago; and they, 

 as well as Mr. Jesty, have been often m contact with per- 

 sons in the sniall-pcjx in the course of 31 years. To give 

 further satisfaction, Mr. Robert Jesty, without hesitation, 

 agreed to the proposal of being again inoculated while in 

 town for the smali-pox. According^N' variolous limpid matter 

 was very careiullyinsertedbyfour punctured places in the left 

 arm, immediately from a child in the 6th day of the erup- 

 tion. Red pimples appeared in th-e punctured parts the day 

 after inoculation, which continued for two or three days, 

 and then died away without any attending pain of the arm 

 or arm-pit, or any constitutional disorder. 



Mr. Jesty's aversion to the sma!l-pox " humour," as he 

 called it, occasioned him to prefer being tested with vaccine 

 matter. Accordingly he was inoculated in tour places in 

 one arm with matter immediately from a subject in the Qth 

 iday of vaccination. 



The farmer described how much he was censured by his 

 neighbours for inoculating his family from " a Icesi — a 

 brute creature v.ilhout any soul ;" and he was called '' a 

 hard-hearted man :" but he answered that the brutes were 

 free from many disorders of men ; and he saw that " there 

 were many Christians who were greater brutes than the 

 cows." 



It is worthy of notice, all the four parties in the cow- 

 pock inoculation have enjoyed an uncommonly good state 

 oi' health, and are all athletic subjects. Mr. Jesty, who is 

 70 years old, is a fresh-looking man, and has the usual ap- 

 pearance of a man of five-and-"fiFty, or at the most of sixty. 

 The indistmctnesg of his speech is from the loss-of all his 

 teeth. 



Togratify the public, and to preserve for posterity this 

 interesting part of the history of cow- pock inoculation, the 

 Vaccine Institution have had a whole length picture of 

 farmer Jesty painted by Mr. Sharp of Suftblk-street. It 

 has been executed in a capitally sucres&ful manner; but it 

 l«ust be owned that the manly figure and fine countenance 

 of the subject were in favour of the ingenious artist. 



BOTAKV. 



