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remarks on the effects of the new medicines.‘ One of the 
_two following pofitions muft be allowed: Either thefe reme- 
dies cure the lues venerea, or, in 99 cafes out of 100 the 
difeafe cures itfelf, Our opponents may take which fide 
they choofe; for, on either fuppofition, mercury muft be 
unneceflary :—and this is our principal object.”’ 
An Inquiry into the Caufes and Effects of the Variole Vac- 
cine, or the Cow-pox. By Epwarp Jenner, M.D. 
F.R.S. &c. 4to.—An Inquiry concerning the Haiftory of 
the Cow-pox, principally with a View to fuperfede and ex- 
tinguifb> the Small-pox. By Grorce Pearson, M.D. 
F.RLS. &c. 8vo. 
Thefe two interefting publications having avowedly the 
fame humane and beneficial object in view, namely, the 
rooting out of a difeafe which has {wept away an immenfely 
greater number of victims from the world than the amount 
of all that have been deftroyed by the plague or peftilence, 
there can be no impropriety in joining them together in this 
fhort notice ; for, fhort it muft be, .as all we can aim at,.or 
hope for, is to excite the curiofity of fuch of our readers 
‘as have not feen them, that they may examine the facts 
brought forward, and by this means be led to yield their in- 
dividual affiftance in the profecution of an object of fo much 
importance. 
_ Opinions are not agreed as to the origin of this difeafe. in 
cows; fome fuppofing that they get it by infeétion from 
men milking them, who have been previoufly applying 
dreffings. to the heels of horfes affef&ted with the grea/e; 
while others, with more probability, confider it as being in 
the firft inftance compounded in the animal economy of the 
cow; ‘after which, it may be conveyed to any number, (in 
an obyious way by the hands of the milkers, as the feat of 
the difeafe is in the breaft and teats, which are covered with 
eruptions fimilar to the fmall-pox). But its origin is of no 
importance :—its application to the benefit of mankind is 
what demands the greateft attention. 
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