Vaccine Inoculation. SSx 



" Parfait, Inoculating Surgeon ; 

 " RousELLE Chamseru, Phyfician to the Army; 

 '' De la Porte, Phyfician to the Military Hofpital ; 

 " HuzARD, Member of the Inftitute; 

 " Tessier, Member of the Inftitute; 

 " Cabannez, Member of the Inftitute, Profeflbr in 

 the School of Medicine." 



The above letter, as appears, wasaddreffed to Dr. Pearfoft, 

 who, however, in place, of returning an anfwer in his own 

 name, prcfented it to the Vaccine Inftitution, where it was 

 determined that the commiffion fliould be executed by the 

 medical cflablilhmcnt. Accordingly, a packet containing 

 vaccine matter on glafs, on lancets, and on thread, inclofed 

 in a bottle filled with hydrogen gas, and a letter of inftruc- 

 tions figned by all the members of the medical eftablifli- 

 mcn[, v.as fent to Paris on the I2th of May laft, with the 

 perm i (lion of Lord Grenville, through the hands of the 

 French commiffioner, Mr. Otto. How well the vaccine 

 matter thus forwarded anfwered the fanguine expectations 

 of the Parifian phvficians, notwithftanding the journey and 

 the delay, is fufHcientlv proved by the following extract from 

 the Gci^elle Katioiiale; and other French papers furnifh 

 fiinilar reports. 



"^ Gazette Rationale, Tr'id'i, 23 Pralrial, an. 8 de la Re- 

 fuhiiquc Fra)ig'jlje, une et indivijible, 



" On the 13th of Prairial the vaccine inoculation was 

 performed on thirty children with matter fent from England, 

 and accordino; to the method recommended. Siscns of in- 

 fection manifefted themfelves on nine of them at the periods 

 and with the characters announced by Dr. Pearfon and other 

 members of the committee inlHtiUed at London for the vac- 

 cine inoculation. It is to be remarked, that the Englifli 

 phyficians exprcfTed in their letter, ' that it ought to be ef- 

 teemed fortunate, on account of the time that mult elapfc be- 

 tween collecting the matter and applying it, if, out of twenty 

 individuals inoculated, one only fliould take the difeafe.' 



*' On the J 9th, 20th, and 2i(t, eighteen children, on 

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