Orig'mal Vaccine Pock Institution. 1 8i 



7. ResoJved, That considering the novelty of the practice 

 of vaccine inoculation, and that it has not been performed 

 in many instances, after such a mode as might j^ive tlic 

 greatest chance of security ; it is advisable to take precau- 

 tionary measures with many who have been inoculated, or 

 who shall undergo the practice in future. 



8. Resolved, That the teats of patients who have been 

 inoculated being secure, are, exposure to effluvia a.nd con- 

 tact with persons in the small pox ; inoculation with small 

 pox matter, and re-inoculation with vaccine matter. But, 

 for reasons set forth in a memoir read at the quarterly meet- 

 ing by Dr. Pearson, the repetition of re-inoculation with 

 vaccine matter is a preferable test ; for it does not appear, 

 from abundant evidence bro\ight forward by the experience 

 of Dr. Pearson, that a person who has gone through the 

 cow pock is susceptible of it a second time. 



9. Resolved, That such practitioners as are desirous of 

 seeing proofs of the proposition last stated, that a second 

 inoculation for the cow pock is an equally decisive test of 

 the question of the susceptibility of a vaccinated person to 

 take the small pox as inoculation with variolous matter, be 

 invited to attend at the institution, for that purpose. 



10. Resolved, That although it is probable, from the 

 amount of the deaths by the sniall pox in the bills of mor- 

 tality in two preceding years, viz. in 1803, ofl20'L'; and 

 in 1S04, of 62L', that the proportion of deaths by that 

 disease has been diminished by vaccine inoculation ; vet it 

 does not appear justifiable to draw this conclusion positive- 

 ly at present — because, in former years, previously to the 

 new practice, even a still smaller proportion occurred bv 

 $mall pox, viz. in 1793, there were 1040; in 1797, there 

 were only 522; and in 1799, there were 1111: therefore 

 that it will require at least five successive years of vaccine 

 practice to draw a ju?t inference. 



11. Resolved, That Dr. Pearson be requested to allow 

 the mcnioir on the state of the practice of vaccination, and 

 on the conduct of it, to be printed, in order to quiet ihc 

 minds of many fimilies disturbed by the late unfavourable 

 reports. 



12. Resolved, That the medical eslablishmcnt continue 

 their practice of registering their observations, as the niost 

 likely means to reduce to ccrt;wnty the vaccine practice as a 

 prophvlaclic of the small pox. 



13. Picsolved, That although the conduct of this institu- 

 tion, under the economical management of the treasurers, 

 'I'homas I'ayne and John llcaviside, ):lsqrs. anil the trustees, 



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