526 Progrefs of the Vaccine Tndculation, &fc. 



•viz. a puftule in the inoculated part only, and a fiiffht fever. 

 Hence I humbly am of opinion, but fubniit tht; queftion to 

 the decifion of fcholars, that the ufe of the denomination va~ 

 riola vaccina is a tranfgreffion of the law in philology, and 

 repugnant to found logic. 



Extended as this paper is, much beyond the limits pro- 

 pofed, I cannot confine to mvfelf the gratification from the 

 reports of the nezu inoculation. I fliall only mention, how- 

 ever, one or two of them. The fenfation excited on the- 

 Continent, by the vaccine praclice, has been much more 

 cortfiderable than in our own ifland, as I learned firlt from Dr. 

 Marcet, and finceby a letter from Dr. Pefchier. At Vienna 

 Dr. Ferro inoculated two of his own- children with vaccine 

 matter which I tranfmitted : and next, Dr. De Carro ino- 

 culated two of his own children. An accurate journal of 

 thefc lafi: cafes was kept by Dr. Dj||Carro, which he has had 

 the complaifance to communicate to me. The above pa- 

 tients had tlie difeafe in the ufual mild way/' and were fub« 

 fequently inoculated for the fm all -pox, but without eftet. 

 Dr. Frank, it is expe£tcdj will adopt the vaccine inocula- 

 tion; as it appear/; will be generally done at Vienna. I 

 often fend matter on a thread, which is to be kept for a 

 lon<y time, in a bottle filled with quite dry hydrogen or nitro- 

 gen gas. I fliall foon have reports from Portugal, and other 

 parts of the Continent. 



In Scotland the new inoculation has not been lefs fuccefT- 

 ful. Dr. Anderfon, of Leilh, informs me he has inoculated 

 above 80 perfons— that Dr. Duncan and others have begun 

 the pra ■ ice at Edinburgh ; and that it has been introduced 

 in Dundee, Paidey, and Dalkeith. 



If tVie vaccine inoculation proceed with equal mildnefs as 

 it has done the laft four months, doubtlefs the variolo\is in- 

 cifion muft in no remote period be fupcrfeded. And if fuch 

 an event Ihould take place, poftcrity will behold with amaze- 

 ment the preiudices and inattention of their predecelFors to 

 the application of a fad in pradicc, by which a formidable 



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