Original Vaccine Pock Institution. £C;) 



properly, in employing variolous inoculation in your own 

 family or elsewhere, except at the institution ; because the 

 great object here is to investigate- the history of -vaccine ino- 

 culation ; and because reasons independent of your opi- 

 nion of the two kinds of inoculation may have influenced 

 your conduct. It is respectfully requested that you will 

 favour the medical establishment with such an explanation 

 as you think may meet with the affectionate regards of your 

 colleagues. I have the honour to remain, &c. 



John Donut, Esq. Wm. SaNCHO, Sec. 



Answer. 



GENTLEMEN, 



In answer to yours this day received, I beg leave to 

 say, that I have not the smallest objection to state my reason 

 for having inoculated my own child with the small-pox. 



The child being near to the village of Streatham in Surry, 

 had been exposed to the contagion of small-pox two days 

 previous to my knowledge of the same; a child having been 

 brought into the same room by accident, then in the fourth 

 day of the eruption. In consequence of this unlucky cir- 

 cumstance, I considered it most prudent to inoculate him 

 immediately with variolous matter. He went through the 

 disease with much difficulty, and no inconsiderable degree 

 of danger. Had the disease proved fatal, I should certainly 

 have considered myself in a great measure to blame, for 

 having neglected to vaccinate him at an earlier period, al- 

 though he was only four months old when inoculated. 

 I am, Gentlemen, your most obedient, 



Bruton Street, July 15, 1800. JOHN DORATT. 



To the M r eekly Board of the f'uecine Pock Institution. 



Some of the governors asserting at this quarterly court, 

 that the resolutions lately advertised * were neither strict- 

 ly warrantable in the present state of facts, nor suffi- 

 ciently explicit for the public, — the subsequent paper, 

 by Dr. Pearson, was read at the weekly board, July 15th; 

 and the author was requested to allow it to be printed for 

 the members. 



" Many families have become unsatisfied with the vac- 

 cine inoculation on two accounts ; namely, the alleged in- 



• See page 93 ui the present volume. 



stances 



