Vdccint ^Jfiiution, *x 



At the Vaccine Inftitution dinner on Monday Feb. 7th, 

 tnany vifitors voluntarily entered iheir names with liberal 

 fubfcriptions. After dinner among other loalls were given, 

 The promulgator of the vaccine indculatioti, Dr. Jenner; 

 Dr. Pearfon, with due acknowledgments of his fervices in 

 eftablifhinsT the new inoculation by the evidence of praftice.' 



Dr. Pearfon then took the opportunity, after thanking the 

 company for their honourable teftimony, to inform them of 

 many particulars concerning the conduA and objefts of the 

 inftitution, which could not be noticfcd in the report, and 

 gave a molt plcafing view of the advantages which individuals 

 had already derived from the cow-pdck : biit he anticipated 

 themomentousconfequences of univerfal inoculation through- 

 out the united kingdom in tworefpedls. 



ift, In preserving from 30,000 to 46,000 lives arinualfy ; 

 and, adly. In a few years extermhiating the fmall-pox. To 

 dccomplirti thefe views, he contended that laws for the indr 

 culation of every fubjeil within a certain period after birth 

 were cilentially neceflary, as well as immediate prohibitioii 

 of the inoculation of the fmall-pox ; that the latter meafure 

 alone would be quite inadequate; and he maintained that it 

 was not more an infringement on the liberty of the fubjeit, to 

 render the cow-pock inoculation univerfal, than to prohibit, 

 as already propofed, the fmall-pox inoculation. He obferved 

 that the number loft by inoculation for the fmall-pox wa^ 

 not an objeft of national importance, as it amounted to no 

 more than lu to nine per thoufand 5 but when it was confi- 

 dered, that one could hardly fay there was more danger from 

 the inoculation of the cow-pock than from a pun6ture with 

 a clean lancet, and that the fymptoms were ufually very 

 njuch flighter than in the fmall-pox inoculation, and that 

 by univerfal cow-pock inoculation, the infedlion of the 

 i'malUpox muft be extinguifhed, which end was obvious by 

 even the univerfal inoculation of the fmall-'pox ; it remained 

 only to inftitute the cow-pock inoculation as propofed, uni- 

 verfal ly. 



Dr. Pearfon combated the objections agalnft iftcreafing 

 the population, by (howing that the rcfources of agriculture 

 and animal food were not underftdod. That the augmenta- 

 tion of the population in France required, as a meafure of 

 fafety, attention to the means of increafing this kind of na- 

 tional wealth; — that the mere wafte in feeding of animals, 

 and in preparing food for man, if taken care of>. would be 

 fufficient t(} fupport a confiderably greater than the pre(ei*t 

 population. 



Dr. Pearfon IHuftratcd his argument in fav6ur of vaccine 

 'i'oi.. XV. No. 57. G inocuJati'on. 



