into the Isles of France and Reunion. 73 



engorgement, &c., but without effecting a cure of those 

 disorders, as some practitioners have announced. 



Some months after the introduction of vaccination, 

 many children, who had passed through it, had erup- 

 tions, not belonging to any class of disorders ; many 

 had slight fevers, and some had sore-throats. The 

 public mind now became uneasy, and feared that a 

 new cutaneous virus had been introduced : and some 

 complained, that the physicians did not prepare their 

 patients ; or, at least, purge them afterivards. But all 

 these inconveniences having disappeared, with the 

 change of season ; and having appeared in the same 

 manner, among children who had not been vacci- 

 nated, confidence was unanimously restored, and I 

 ■ believe I am correct in saying, that, except those re- 

 cently born, and those who daily arrive, there is not, 

 in the Isles of France and Reunion, a single indimdual 

 luho had not had the small-pox, that has not been vacci- 

 nated. 



A circumstance very favourable to the confirmation 

 of this confidence arose from my being able to exhi- 

 bit to the Colony, a very remarkable proof of the effi- 

 cacy of the new practice. 



A ship stored with Negroes arrived at the Island, 

 with the small-pox on board. Fifteen or eio-htcen 

 persons had already died of it : a like number was, 

 at that moment, under the effects of the confluent 

 sort, and the number every day increased. It was 

 impossible to admit this vessel, both on account of 



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