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*' Dr. De Carro's experience tends to confirm the 

 advantages of vaccination in cutaneous affections. He 

 records the case of a child, seven years old, who Avas 

 relieved by it from an herpetic eruption over the whole 

 body, of three years standing, for the removal of which 

 other means had been tried in vain. 



" Dr. Colon, a zealous friend to vaccination (who, 

 at a considerable expence, fitted up his own house, in 

 the neighbourhood of Paris, for the reception and accom- 

 modation of those who were to be inoculated), enume- 

 rated several examples of the utility of the cow pock in 

 these disorders, and in the scrofula. 



" Dr. Cappe of York assents to the opinion, that it has 

 a strong tendency to correct a scrofulous disposition in 

 the system. It appeared to him considerably to relieve 

 three cases of eruptions on the skin, and entirely to re- 

 move another complicated with ophthalmia. Mr. 

 Hutchinson, of Manchester, has found vaccination a re- 

 medy in several cutaneous affections. 



* ' Dr. Odier bears testimony to the restorative virtues 

 of cow pock in weak and delicate constitutions. — Dr. 

 Patterson of Montrose, Mr. Dunning of Plymouth 

 Dock, and the Rev. Mr. Finch of St. Helens, are in- 

 duced to concur with him in opinion, from the result of 

 cases which fell under their observation. 



" In two cases which occurred to Dr. Moteau, one a 

 scrofulous ophthalmia, the other a fistula near the elbow, 



