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The following Resolutions were next read, and unani- 

 mously agreed to be published : 



I. That it does appear, on adequate evidence, that persons 

 who have gone through the-cow-pock, in the manner com- 

 monly believed to give security, have in the proportion of 

 one in a thousand subsequently taken the small-pox, ac- 

 cording to the experience of this institution Op to the pre- 

 sent time. 



II. That disorders which can be at all reasonably imputed 

 to inoculation have been observed less frequently after the 

 vaccine than after the variolous inoculation. 



III. Thai considering the slightness of the cow-pock, 

 and that no fatal case has occurred in the practice of this 

 institution, vaccination is greatly preferable to variolation ; 

 and especially on account of its not being propagated in anv 

 way but by inoculation, it is infinitely more valuable to 

 the public. 



IV. That it be recommended to every one who has been, 

 or shall be, vaccinated, to be re-inoculated with variolous or 

 vaccine matter. 



V. That according to the experience of this institution, 

 the test of the insertion of vaccine matter (which is perfectly 

 harmless) is to be relied upon equally with that of the va- 

 riolous. 



VI. That there are good reasons for imputing the late 

 mortality by the small -pox to its having been highly epide- 

 mical last year, a6 well as to the influence by which some 

 writers, oppoaers of the cow-pock, were enabled to prevail 

 upon a great number of persons to be inoculated for the 

 nmall-pox ; thus multiplying the sources of, variolous in- 

 fection. 



Our readers in general may at first be a little surprised, and 

 thesanguineadvocatesof vaccination he mortified on pcrusmo- 

 the above declarations of an independent society ; but alter 

 considering the subject, it will appear, that still the cow- 

 pock inoculation possesses all the advantages ever proposed 

 by its most reasonable advocates, except that in a small pro- 

 y 3 portion 



