3i6 On PTiccinatiofi, 



To the Editor of the Medical Olservet. 



SIR, 



On perceiving (in the tenth number of your Observer,) 

 among the cow-pox faiUues and mischiefs which you are • 

 so kind as to favour the public with, the case of Mrs^ 

 Hawkins's daughter, of No. 4, Pleasant Place, Lambeth, 

 and which makes the 40th of y<i'-ir hst, I was a little sur- 

 prisedj as I had attended the child occasionally, and her 

 parents frequently, during three years previous to her death, 

 but had never heard that any part of her sufferings had been 

 attributed to the cow-pox by her parents. She died of psoas 

 abscess I Some lime prior to her death, her father died of 

 hydrothorax, and I have since occasionally been attending 

 her mother in ascites. I mention these circumstances as no 

 further important than to state that they gave me an oppor- 

 tunity of inquiring vhether they had ever in the least blamed 

 the cow-pox for her complaints; the mother says No, though 

 some person, sent by Dr. Moseley, wished to convince them 

 it was so: unless indeed it may be considered Important 

 to contemplate how far it was wonderful that a child of pa- 

 rents so unhealthy, should die of psoas abscess wilhoiU the 

 aid of the cow-pox. 



Just as the circumstances of this case were passing my 

 mind, Mr. Vaughan of Lambeth, the case of whose daughter 

 makes your 69th, in number 12 of your Observer, came to 

 desire T would call at his house, as the child in question 

 had a sliaht eruption on the skin, but without complaint. 

 On seeing her, I immediately wrote the following, which I 

 desired Mrs. Vaughan (a sensible intelligent woman, who 

 entered mightily into the joke,) to copy, and send to Dr. 

 Moseley and Mr. Birch. 

 *' Sir, — A case of small- pox has occurred after vaccination 

 Ixj Dr. IValshman, at No. 4, Pratt-street, Lambeth, {Mr. 

 Faucrhan's oil-shop,) — Perhaps you will like to look at it. X 

 remain T/ours, " Nurse." 



July 'JO, 1808. 



I took the child immediattly to ]Vfr. Young the surgeon 

 of Lambeth, w.iom I found along with his friend Dr. Hig- 

 gins : without making them in the least acquainted with 



my 



