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the former was cured, and the discharge from the latter 

 much lessened by it. 



" The Committee of Vaccine Inoculation, at the Lou- 

 vre, found that matter taken from vaccine patients labour- 

 ing under other cutaneous diseases, such as the itch and 

 small-pox, did not communicate any disease but the 

 cow pock, and they believe that the vulgar opinion rela- 

 tive to the inoculation of other diseases with the cow 

 pock, is without foundation. I believe the itch or other 

 chronic eruptions of the skin, are not communicable 

 with cow pock ; but I should not think it prudent to take 

 vaccine virus, for inoculation, from the arm of a" patient 

 labouring under small -pox. 



" M. Fournier, of Brussels, gives us tlie case of a 

 child four years of age, who for a long time was affected 

 with deafness, which grew worse and worse. The tenth 

 day after inoculation with cow pock, when the arm in- 

 flamed, the deafness began to diminish, and was entirely 

 removed in a few days. 



" Mr. Ring records two cases of the salutary effects 

 of the new inoculation, communicated to him by Mr. 

 Garsed, Surgeon of Blagan, in Glamorganshire, South 

 Wales : one, an obstinate cough of some months stand- 

 ing, which did not yield to medicine. Five days, how- 

 ever, after vaccination, the cough disappeared suddenly, 

 and did not return, the child remaining in perfect health. 

 The other case was that of a boy, sixteen months old, 

 who was so full of scrofulous tumours, that it was the 

 opinion of every medical man who saw him,, that he 



