5o Vaccine Inoculation among Countiy -People, 



Perhaps j'ou would like to know how we carry on the vac-* 

 cine inoculation : almoft every cobler, iliepherd, and cow- 

 boy, are confummate and experienced adepts in this new 

 fpecific art. 



I will, with your leave, intcrfperfe this with a remark to 

 fubflantiate what I mean to advance. — At Steeple Claydon, 

 a village five miles from Window, great numbers have been 

 inoculated for the vaccine difeafe by the moft illiterate of 

 all beings in human fhape — the cow-boys and {hepherd's 

 boys, without any prior or fubfcquent medicine whatever. 

 At Weftbury, Shenley, Fattenhoe, and a numl)cr of villages 

 round our neighbourhood, the fame. At Finmere, Mr. 

 Holt, the clergyman, (a neighbour of ours,) does adminifter 

 fonie little medicine, fuch as falts, &c. — People are inoculated, 

 and inoculate themfelves, indifcriminately ; fuch as farmers, 

 dairy-people, &c. with impunity, without any preparation, 

 fubfequent purification, oV making application to any me- 

 dical perfon whatever. Yefterday I few a man inoculate a 

 family with a coLler's awl dipped in another's arm : others 

 do it with a penknife ground like a lancet point : others 

 with needles infc6lcd with the vaccine matter. I am a great 

 advocate for the vaccine inoculation : I acknowledge it to 

 be a great acquifition and difcovery, and confequently vd- 

 timatcly a great bleffing to the community at large, and do 

 not doubt of its fuccefs. 



The well-atteiled fads that you and others affert, prove it 

 indubitably; but greatly do I ]amcnt that fonie dclufion, or 

 fome fecret myfterious means have not been put hi force to 

 prevent its being in other hands than medical men. The 

 fmall-pox inoculation is now rapidly declining, and probably 

 in a few years may be known no more. I am forry to fay, 

 that fome of our rudics appear to underftand the cow-pock 

 better than many of our country medical fraternity. I may 

 add, Farewel, Thiflle Forell! Farewel, Primrofe Hill, Stan- 

 ton Houfe*, &c. 



N. B. The proprietors of the above houfes deny the vac- 

 cine difeafe to be a fpe^cific for the variolae ; but the inter- 



• The houfes alluded to arc fmall-pox Lnoculation houfes, of great re- 

 pute. 



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