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disease, are essentially advanced by such libraries of 

 publications as are daily proceeding from the press. 



The work now before us is illustrated by two good 

 coloured engravings, the first of which represents the 

 disease of Vaccine, as it appears on the eighth and ele- 

 venth days after the operation has been performed; and 

 the second exhibits the disease at a later period, about 

 the fifteenth, when the scabs, such as are so advantage- 

 ously employed at present, are formed. 



The following extracts from the work may serve the 

 cause of Vaccine inoculation in the United- States. 



*' Independent of the antivariolous power justly attri- 

 buted to cow pock, it is asserted to have other material 

 effects upon the constitution. These may be divided 

 into prejudicial and salutary. 



*' It has been accused of exciting latent complaints, 

 and of inducing others with which the system would not 

 otherwise have been affected. — Troublesome eruptions 

 on the skin, and obstinate glandular swellings have been 

 laid to its charge ; and where the seeds of scrofula lie 

 dormant in the constitution, it is said to have roused 

 them into action. — Such accusations are proved, by am- 

 ple experience, to be totally void of foundation. — If a 

 child, who has gone through the cow pock, be seized, 

 several months after, M'ith any complaint, no matter what, 

 it will be supposed to proceed from thence. — Being re- 

 quested to inoculate a child with cow pock, the opera- 

 tion was for some cause postponed; meanwhile the child 



