184 Original Faccine Pock Institulion. 



the privilege of letters to and from the establishment must 

 be especially acceptable. 



Among the resolutions were the following : 



1. Resolved, That it appears from the numerous reports 

 that have been transmitted or attested by the members of 

 the medical establishment from abroad, from our own 

 country, and from their own experience, that the propor-r 

 lion of failures in the cow-pock inoculation to give secu- 

 rity against the small-pox, which have been published, 

 does not amount to more than 5o out of i250,000 vacciT 

 naied persons. 



2. Resolved, That it does not appear on examination of 

 the publii^hed reports of these failures, and the investigation 

 of many of them by the medical establishment of this insti- 

 tution, that TEN have been substantiated by admissible and 

 adequate evidence. 



3. Resolved, That it seems more than probable, that all 

 or many of even the admitted of failure, according to the 

 evidence produced, are liable to be deceptions, on the same 

 grounds as in the asserted cases of the occurrences of the 

 small pox, subsequent to the small pox. 



4. Resolved, That, considering that the cow pock inocur 

 lation has bcea the practice of producing an affection which 

 practitioners in the first instances in general had not previ- 

 ously seen, and the history of which was so little known, 

 and considering the greater deceptions than in the small 

 pox inoculation to which practitioners are exposed, it wag 

 to have been expected that a much greater proportion of 

 supi)osed failures would have occurred- 



5. Resolved, That it does not appear that a single instance 

 has occurred of the small pox, subsequent to the cow pock, 

 during more than five years practice at this institution; for, 

 on inquiry, two instances which were said to be such were 

 found to be inadmissible cases : viz. one of them on ac- 

 count of the supposed cow pock preceding being only a 

 local affection; and in the other, that it was only proved that 

 there was a local affection from the variolous inoculation, 



(5. Resolved, That the numerous instances of exposure of 

 vaccmated pcrstms to the small pox since the commence- 

 ment of the practice in .January in 1799, and likewise of 

 re])cated re-inocuUition with small pox matter at this insti- 

 tution, and which have been coinniunicatedy establish the 

 fact, that a person wlio lias really gone throuf;h the cow 

 pock is incapable of the small pox, on as firm ground as 

 the fact of variolous iuoculation giving security against the 

 small pox. 



7. Re- 



