Astronomy. — Vaccination. 



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ASTRONOMY. 



Talk of the. right Ascension and DecUnatiun of Ceres and 

 Pallas for October 1805. 



VACCINATION. 



Certificate of the Evidence of jSIr. Jesty, the Lwcnlafor oj 

 his Family for the Cow-pock in 1774. 

 Mr. Benjamin Jesty, of Downsbay in tl)c isle of Piir- 

 bcck, having, agreeably to an invitation fvoni the Medical 

 Establishment of the Original Vaccine Institution, Broad- 

 street, Golden Square, visited London in August 1805, to 

 communicate certain facts relating to the cow-pock inocu- 

 lation : We think it a matter of justice to himself, and be- 

 neficial to the public, to attest, that, among other facts, he 

 has afforded decisive evidence of his having vaccinated his 

 wife and two sons, Robert and Benjamin, in the year 1 774, 

 who were thereby rendered unsusceptible of the small-pox ; 

 .15 appears from the exposure of all the three parties to il;at 

 disease frequently during the course of 31 years : and from 

 the inoculation of the two sons for the small-pox 15 years 

 ago — That he was led to undertake this novel practice in 

 i774, to counteract the small pox, at that time prcvakat 

 at Yctminster (where he then resided), from knowing the 

 common opinion of the country ever since he was a bov, 

 now above sixty years ago, that persons Vvdio had gone 

 through the cow-pock natiu-allv, i. c. by taking it irom 

 cows, were unsusceptible of the small-pox — I'iy himself 

 being incapable of taking the small-pox, having gone 

 through the cow-pock nianv vears before — From having 

 personally known many individuals, who, after tb.e cow- 

 A a 2 V'odi, 



