86s Vaccination. 



pock, coTild not have the small-pox excited — From believ- 

 ing that the cow -pock was an affection tree from danger — 

 And from his opinion that by the cow-pock inoculation he 

 should avoid ingrafting various diseases of the human con- 

 stitution, such as " the evil, madness, lues, and many bad 

 humours," as he called them. 



The remarkably vigorous health of Mr. .Testv, his wife, 

 and two sons, now 31 years subsequent to the cow-pock ; 

 and his own healthy appearance, at this time 70 years of 

 age, aTord a singularly strong proof of the harmlessness of 

 that aiTcrtion. But the public must with particular in- 

 terest hear that, during the late visit to town, Mr. Robert 

 Jes^ty very willingly submitted publicly to inoculation for 

 the smali-pox in the most rigorous manner, and after the 

 most efficacious mode, without having been infected. 



The circiunstances in which Mr. Jesty purposely insti- 

 tuted the vaccine pock inocuktion in his own family, viz. 

 ■without any precedent, but merely from reasoning upon 

 the nature of the affection among cows; and from know- 

 ing its effects in ilic casual wav among men; his exemption 

 irom the prevailing popular prejudices ; and his disregard 

 ot (he clamorous reproaches of his neighbours, in our 

 opinion well entitle him to the respect of the public for his 

 superior strength of mind : but, further,his conduct in again 

 iLn-nishing such deci'iive proofs of the permanent anti-variolous 

 efficacy of the cow- pock in the present discontented state 

 of many families, by submitting to inoculation, justly 

 claims at least the gratitude of the country. — As a testi- 

 mony of our personal regard, and to commemorate so ex- 

 traordinary a fact as that of preventing the small-pox by 

 inoculating for the cow-pock 31 vea'"s ago, at our request a, 

 three-quarters length picture of Mr. .Jesty is painted by 

 that excellent artist ]\lr. Sharp^ to be preserved at thq 

 Original Yaecne i'ock Institution. 



.ToHN Heavisidk.I r., 



' > i reasurcrs. 



Thomas Pavnk, 



Gkouge Pearson, 



Lau.kknck Nihei^l, ^Phvsicians. 



Thomas Nelson 



vPhysicii 



Thomas Keate, 7 r^ u- c _««^ 



T I' J- Consulting Surgeons. 



IhOMP.SON I'ORSTEB,) ^ ® 



•JoSfPH CONSTANTINE CaIU'UE,') o 



r ,^ ' Y Surgeons. 



•JOHN DoRATT, 3 



Francis Rivers, '^ 



Ev:.RAKD Bkande, >\'isiting Apothecaries. 



Philip De BuuyN,J 



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