Inoculation of Sheep. — Deaths. Ill 



INOCULATION OF SHEEP. 



It appears that the praftice of inoculating flieep for the 

 fmall-pox is now common in Germany. We are informed 

 that a M. von Hofman caufed this operation to be performed 

 on his whole flock, and that not one of them died. A fcratch 

 was made in the fkin of the right hind leg, three or four 

 inches from the hoof, and a fmall drop of matter fqueezed 

 from a ripe puftule was rubbed into the wound. A plafler 

 an inch and a quarter long, and an inch broad, was then 

 applied over it. Profeflbr Beckmann, to whom we are in- 

 debted for this article, fays he does not know whether it has 

 been proved by experience that fheep inoculated in this 

 manner are fecured againft future infeftion. This poiiU 

 indeed does not feem to be yet determined ; otherwife, the 

 Uoyal Society of Gottingen would not have made it the fub- 

 jecl of a prize queftion. 



On the i6th of February, at Munich, of a ftroke of the 

 apoplexy, Charles Theodore, eleftor Palatine, who as a 

 friend to the arts and fciences deferves a confpicuous place in 

 the annals of literature. A chronological catalogue of his 

 inftitutions may be found in F, P. Wundts Effliy towards a 

 general Hijlory of the Palaiinatc of the Rhine. In the year 

 1763 he founded the Academy of Sciences at ISIanlieim, 

 which fince its eftabli(hment has certainly been of great 

 utility by its refearches into ancient hiflory and geography. 

 At the fame time that the Academy was founded, a Cabinet 

 of Antiquities was begun. In 1769 the Phyfical Economical 

 Society at Lantern was cftabliflied; and in 1774 the High 

 School, which in 1784 was transferred to Heidelberg aud 

 united with the Univerfity of that place. The Geruiau 

 Literary Society at Manheim eflaWiflied in 1775 was 

 founded alfo by this Prince, as well as the Cabinet of Natu- 

 jal Curiofilies begun in I7'5j; the Botanical Garden; the 



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