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unless the operator ha* already seen the <)Nense,as it ap- 

 pears in nature, l^e spurious cow-pox is sometimes 

 ^ accompanied with a severe phagedenic ulcer, instead of 

 *" Y """ ' vesicle. It would he proper to watch the con- 



stitutional symptoms, viz the heat of the skin, and the 

 state of the pulse. It i^ better, however, to use the test 

 invented by Mr. I5ryce. If irregular eruptions appear 

 during the progress, or after the termination of the 

 vaccine affection, we ought to guard against cold, which 

 might suddenly repel them, and generate a visceral 

 If daily cold ablutions have been hitherto 

 used, these should be intermitted in such cases, and 

 tepid bathing substituted. It is always necessary to 

 protect the vesicle from being rublied and broken, 

 as such an accident destroys its efficacy. When it 

 happens to 'be broken, Mr Hryce directs that the 

 farther discharge of its content* should be prevented, 

 an' I the regular coarse of the affection restored, by 

 cold applications and chemical astringent*. If a trou- 

 blesome sore i* formed at a late stage of the affection, as* 

 tringentsand escharotici ought to be employed, on sur- 

 gical principles similar to those adopted tor other ulcers 

 presenting- a similar appearance. When the vesicle is 

 formed, but the inflamed areola is too late in appearing, 

 the part should be expo-cd to the heat of a fire, in or- 

 der to quicken the local action, on which the regular 

 phenomena depend. Where the local inflamm . 

 excessive, or where a tumour is formed in the axilla, 

 laxative* should be used, accompanied with cooling 

 applications, or with fomentation*, according to the 

 state of the part*. If febrile symptoms should in any 

 case be immoderate in degree, they are to be alleviated 

 by the usual antiphlogistic treatment. 



The surer ss or the practice of variokw* inoculation, 



led the late Professor Home of Edinburgh to make 



TsiraUlin MMM piwenU for the inoculation of measles, which 



^ kind. But the itiisas* was not found to be eesfly com. 

 niuniratrd in this manner The opsntinn was per- 

 iWawd by means of the blood of a patient under the 

 di*rs*e. 



eated daring trial* have even been made to ino- 

 culate the plague. These, for the most part, have 

 either terminated in the death of the person who made 

 himself the subject of experiment, or hav. 



of tkt Jmwrmtatiom of Small. 1'.^ in < lain. 



Jrnner'f O6*trralitHU on Ike Cam- Pot; hi* r' 

 O&MTvatfMHU ; and hi* < onuxtuttion of Fad* 



forth* 



'i (i 

 Pro. 



Vi!|ilrr' 



Smr 



mal; DM 

 Zealand 



I! 



Pearson's Inquiry. Woodville'i Itrporlt 

 and his UoterrmJiomt on 

 The Writing* of Moseiey, Rowley, and 

 opposition). Brow The 



tuom, and Thorn. 



niii|irnil- lij \ik.n I'.. in.l ,,thrv llr\c<< 



Vsen '*oculiii n o/ < 



'mmmt tititrrt IV ar ../ Small- Poi. Cam- 1 



Icrtmnt of an Epidemic 

 ic'il ana Phyiicul Jour- 



mrgtcaJ 1-,*rnal, and other medical periodical 



in the vegetable kingdom, See 

 r.m v..l. XI. p 



a term synonymoas with Jury, and i* 

 in that signification in the law of 



frequently 



i.v Or rift, is the court 

 which takes cognizance of heresy in some ecu 



subject to the Pope, and particularly in Spain and Por- Inquisition, 

 tugal. ^ "V"' ' 



The existence of such a court proceeds upon the idea, 

 tli.it it is the duty of the civil magistrate, either in his 

 own name, and by his own authority, or as the prop and 

 the resource of the ecclesiastical power, to search after 



os, and to extirpate them. It takes for granted, 

 likewise, the absurd and monstrous proposition, that the 

 human understanding can be influenced and won by 

 other means than those of information communicated, 

 or argument proposed ; and that real and conscientious 

 disoipleship can be the result of civil or political de- 

 privations, or the infliction of corporal punishment. 



In the early time* the church herself appears to have Opinion t 

 maintained a doctrine, the very opposite of that which the Fath " 3 

 ha* now been stated. As the satirist, when reduced to J^louii^o." 

 poverty himself. sj>eedily perceived that poverty was i cr; ; u - OD . 

 no fit object of satire, so the Christians, when trembling 

 under the fear of persecution, or expiring amidst its 

 agonies, were not slow to discern, or backward to de- 

 clare, that persecution was not the means by which 

 true converts were to be made. Accordingly, in the 

 Apoioz ic s which they presented to the Roman emperors, 

 in behalf of their religion, during the first three centu- 

 ey ar^ue the question, and zealously maintain, 

 that the province of the civil magistrate extends no far- 

 ther than that of securing the peace, and promoting the 

 welfare of the community ; and that persecution for 

 any opinion which lies hid in the understanding, whe- 

 ther that opinion !>< true or faKe, is not only al>urd, 

 because it i* inefficacious, but unjust and cruel in the 

 highest degree. ait <>/," say* Tertullian, 



' " ccgere reltgionrm, qtut tponle tutiipi deheal, non n." 



the same idea is expressed by I>actantius. who 



in the fourth century. " (fait impnnat nii/n," 

 say* he, " f, emblem, Vtt colrtidi quod nolim, vrl quod 

 \flint. ion culmdi ; quid jam nofru ull.rint retunjnilur li 

 eiiam h'jc quad tot*nlale fieri oporlti, libido ej.lorqurat 

 alifa K" And again, in another place, ^ m tit 



vni**larnim qvam rriipio. in. q*d,ti animut tacrificantit 

 jam ttiUata, jam aulla ttt." ; y of 



Pokticr-. hkrwiM-, who lived, at well as Lactanlius, in 

 the fourth century, and who. though he held the very 

 same opinion with lho*e which have just been quoted, 

 {expected ly to be found among the saints in the 



-h calendar, orx-nty maintains the inadequacy and 

 fleTMnpropriety of coercive measures in promoting 

 the worship of God. / Itrut," says he, " umivrti* 

 lalu, o&iftffio mom *ftt itettfn . inn 



lohrm." And, addressing himself to those whose 

 pride or whose zeal induced them to give information 

 to the magistrate, and to prompt him to the rigorous 

 execution of the imperial edicts, he say, " Oritvot ejnt' 



;'ii6i*i*a'>i njfr/ifiit ad pronto, andum n',ing-/ium, 

 *po*t-ji mi mill f (^Hthus adjuli pofettati&ut Cniutum 

 fimfiiiiniuHl. gemtaqne ffrr omitet, ex it!<,/i\ ad Deum 

 IraiiilMlrrunlf Anne aliquant ititi anumcbarit e pnttilio 

 difttitatem, Aynrnum l)ro, mcurcere, inter catenai el jla- 

 frlla cnn a*te* ? falirlit rrfit I'aiilut C/iritto ecctrtiam 

 co-iprrfahal f \rnmrte credo out ycspatiano palroci- 

 naniili ', ,/nnrinn in not odiu conff*tio (livince 



prttdi, uruii f" Even so late as the fifth cen- 



tury, St Martin, in France, (and it had been well for 

 the world it the calendar had been filled with such saints 

 as he ) excommunicated a bishop for accusing certain 



o to the usurper Maximin, by whose means they 

 were put to death ; adding, in the tpirit of genuine 

 ( 'iri-tunity. that he looked upon that man a* a mur- 

 derer, who procured the destruction of a fellow-creature, 



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