^^ Vaccine Inoculaiion.-^Aniiqutties. 



Ihortened one half. Thefe motions took place even when 

 the arming was removed. 



Tliefe experiments were made in the prefence of the com- 

 minary-general of the police, feveral profelfors of ihe Athe- 

 naeum, the members of the academy, and a great number of 

 other eniighleneil citizens. 



XVI. Intelligence and Mifcellaneous Articles . 



VACCINE INOCULATION. 



JL HE following letter, addreffld by A. van dcr Velden, fur- 

 geon and mnn-midwife at Workendam, to the editor of a 

 Dutch Journal intitled Algevicerie Konjlai Letter-Bode i8o3. 

 No. 41, we have tranflated from that work. 



" By the encouragement of fome friends to humanity, and 

 fome of our principal medical men, who have exerted them- 

 felves very much to recommend the cow-pock inoculation at 

 this place, about 140 haVe been inoculated by me and 

 J. Heilijers, furgeon and man-midwife atWondriehem. lam 

 therefore induced to fend you the following information, 

 with the hopes that it may contribute to the prefcrvalion of 

 thofe who are fuft'ering under the fmall-pox. In the courfe 

 of the prefent month 1 was called in by an inhabitant of this 

 place wlio had the misfortune to lofe two of his children by 

 a confluent fmall-pox of tlie moft malignant fort, and the 

 third, the only one remaining, was exceedingly ill of the fame 

 diforder. Convinced that no injury could arife to the pa- 

 tient, I applied the vaccine, being provided with a' lancet 

 armed with good matter, and had the happinefs to find, the 

 fecond day after the vaccination, that the fymptoms of the 

 fmall-pox were much mitigated; but on the eighth, and 

 particularly the ninth day after the vaccine inoculation, the 

 puflulcs of the natural pox dried up and fell oft'. In the 

 mean time the vaccine continued to operate, and the fol- 

 lowinii- day the child was perceptibly better, and no bad con- 

 fequence enfued. ■ 



" If you think this fimple cafe worth infcrtion in your 

 .Tournal, as a further proof of the power and utility of the 

 vaccine, it will give me great pleafure, efpcciaily if it {liall 

 benefit the public, and excite the attention of others." 



ANTIQUITIES. 



M. Akerblad, a learned Swede, has opened a new field to 

 the lovers of anlicjuities, and enlarged the boundaries of our 



knowledge^ 



