Cow-Pock, ' Igi 



T!ie Leftures are to be calculated for both fexes and dif- 

 ferent ages; and that there may be little chance of exclufion 

 by reafon of narrow circumflances, the fubfcription is fixed 

 at One Guinea; but^ unlefs fifty perfons iliall have entered 

 their names by the 31ft of March, the Lectures will not go 

 on, as, without a tolerably numerous audience, Dr. Beddocs 

 thinks he could beftow his time in a manner more advan- 

 tageous to the public. 



We fincerely hope nothing will prevent this ufeful defiga 

 from being carried into etfedt. 



cow POCK. 



ExtraB of a 'Letter from Dr. De Carro of Vienna^ to 

 Dr. Pearjon. 

 " DEAR SIR, 



*' Two Hanoverian gentlemen, Dr. Ballhorn and Mfv 

 Stromcver, who, as you know, are making experiments with 

 cow-pock, and with whom I correfpond, informed me that 

 ■ this difeaie is very well known in Holftein, and that a cer- 

 tain Dr. NefTen, of Sicgeberg, has collected many fafts 

 which prove its anti-variolous property. Being myfelf lately 

 in company with feveral Englifh gentlemen, who were put- 

 ting to me many queftions on the fubje6l of cow-pock, an 

 American gentleman, Mr. Murray, of Philadelphia, told me 

 that his {ervant, a German, had lived three years in the 

 Duchy of Holftein, and that he thought he recollefted that he 

 kad mentioned to him fome fafts which coincided much with 

 what I was telling them about the cow-pock. This gave me 

 the curiofity of fpeaking to that fervant, who, he told me, 

 was very intelligent, and had fhown often a fpirit of bbferva- 

 tion. Here is the fummary of his anfwer : — That during a 

 ftay of three years in Holftein, in the environs of Kiel, he 

 had very often heard of a difeafe of cows called Die Finnerij 

 {finne means, in general, a pimple, un bouton; Jinnig, pim 

 pled, honlomie,) and that he had had. frequent occafion of 

 feting cow.s affected with that difeafe.: that its property of 

 p>referving againft the fmall-pox is well known by the farmers 

 and pliyficians of the country : that, in the town of Kiel, the 

 inoculati«n with the Jinnen is fometiiucs pradifed upon chil- 

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