^o Pearson's Ijecliircsi 



ncs?i as will enable Mr. Pn'ce to commence early in tlic 

 j^nsuing winter. Hfe is also in treaty for the erection of a 

 scientific theatre, capjtblc of holding about five hundred 

 personsj on a plan similar to that at^he Royal Institution. 



Dr. Pearson proposes, in addition to his stimmer course of 

 lectures on physic and chemi8tr)% to give the following on the 

 cow -pock inoculation j at the Institution, (founded Dec. 1 799, 

 late No, ,^, Golden-square,) No. 44, Broad-strecl, Golden- 

 squdre. A lecture to be given at the Institution once or twice 

 a weekj according to the subject of it, for about twelve weeks. 



The principal objects will be: 1. The history of what is 

 known of the vaccina in cows^ 2. The history of the dis- 

 covery, introduction, and propagation of vaccine inocula-* 

 tion. 3. To show, in patients at the Institution, the pro- 

 gress of the inoculated cow-pock, through its stages of 

 growing into a vesicle, cons(itutional disorder, scabbing 

 process, deciduary carbuncle-like scab, with a view espe- 

 cially to make known the distinguishing characters of the 

 vaccina. 4. To explain the unusual or accidental sym- 

 ptoms and effects of the vaccina: viz. eruptions, phlegmo- 

 nous inftammation, eiythema, axillary svVeinngs, essera; 

 vaccina, pxistulc, ulcerations of inoculated parts, &c. 5. To" 

 explain the anomalous eruption of inoculated parts. 6. To 

 explain the anomalous course of the inoculated vaccina. 

 7. Intervening disorders, especially the smalUpox, measles^ 

 chicken-pox, contagious angina, hooping cough, tooth 

 rash, red gam, &c. 8. Instances, by inoculation, of the 

 small-pox and cow-pock at the same time in the same per- 

 son. 9. The various modes of preserving vaccine matter. 

 10. The effects of various modes of inoculation. U. The 

 effects of matter at different ages of the vaccine~pock. 12. 

 The effects of inoculation of persons who have undergone 

 the smal!-pox or cow-pock. 13. The effects of inoculation 

 when it fails to destroy the susceptibility of the small-pox. 

 14. The medical treatment and regimen during the cow- 

 pock. 15. The effects on health subsequently to inocula- 

 tion. Hi. The vaccine inoculation instead of the small- 

 pox, as vicarious of a disease in sheep. 



Proposals. — 1. Subscribers for life, viz. often guineas, 

 to the Vaccine Institution to be admitted gratuitously; as 

 well as 2. Perpetual pupils to Dr. Pearson's lectures in ge- 

 neral ; and his 3. Other pupils on becoming perpetual, in 

 addition to their present lectures, to be admitted on the sama 

 terms. 4« Those who are neither subscribers to the Insti- 

 tution, nor are pupils, as just mentioned, are to pay three 

 guine^is for a single course, or six guineas as perpetual. 



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