54 MEMOIR OF CAMPER. 



to the farmer and the trader, presently led the way 

 to a double inoculation ; first ere the calf left the 

 cow-house ; and secondly, when it had attained the 

 age of three or four months ; and this was resorted 

 to> not because it was believed that they were twice 

 susceptible of taking the disease by inoculation or 

 otherwise, but that no doubt might possibly remain 

 that they had in reality taken, and so passed through 

 it." 



Mankind have been in a most especial manner in- 

 debted to the cow, inasmuch as inoculation was su- 

 perseded by vaccination the security against one 

 of the greatest plagues which was ever inflicted up- 

 on our race. Would our modern Jenners be of- 

 fended, if we should venture to hint, that the com- 

 plete success which attended the method of vacci- 

 nation in the case of the cow, might, by possibility, 

 supply them with a hint which would afresh remove 

 the alarm, the uncertainty, and the danger which, 

 at the present moment, is experienced on the sub- 

 ject of vaccination? 



And as we have been thus bold in tendering a 

 hint to the profession of which Camper was so great 

 an ornament, so we may venture to suggest that his 

 inquiries into another disease to which cattle are 

 subject, may supply to them a piece of useful infor- 

 mation. 



It is a matter of general notoriety, that a wound 

 proceeding from the body of a dead person, is often the 

 most poisonous and deadly of any that can be inflicted. 



