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CASE XI. William Stinchcomb was a fellow servant 

 Nichols at Mr. Bromedge's farm at the time the cattle had 

 the cow-pox, and he was, unfortunately, infected by them. 

 His left hand was very severely affected with several cor- 

 roding ulcers, and a tumour of considerable size appeared in 

 the axilla of that side. His right hand had only one small 

 tumour upon it, and no sore discovered itself in the corre- 

 sponding axilla. 



In the year 1792 Stinchcomb was inoculated with variolous 

 matter, but no consequences ensued beyond a little inflam- 

 mation in the arm for a few days. A large party were in- 

 oculated at the same time, some of whom had the disease 

 in a more violent degree than is commonly seen from inocu- 

 lation. He purposely associated with them, but could not 

 receive the smallpox. 



During the sickening of some of his companions their 

 symptoms so strongly recalled to his mind his own state 

 when sickening with the cow-pox that he very pertinently 

 remarked their striking similarity. 



CASE XII. The paupers of the village of Tortworth, In 

 this county, were inoculated by Mr. Henry Jenner, Surgeon, 

 of Berkeley, in the year 1795. Among them, eight patients 

 presented themselves who had at different periods of their 

 lives had the cow-pox. One of them, Hester Walkley, I 

 attended with that disease when she lived in the service of a 

 farmer in the same village in the year 1782 ; but neither this 

 woman, nor any other of the patients who had gone through 

 the cow-pox, received the variolous infection either from 

 the arm or from mixing in the society of the other patients 

 who were inoculated at the same time. This state of security 

 proved a fortunate circumstance, as many of the poor women 

 were at the same time in a state of pregnancy. 



CASE XIII. One instance has occurred to me of the 

 system being affected from the matter issuing from the 

 heels of horses, and of its remaining afterwards unsuscep- 

 tible of the variolous contagion; another, where the small- 

 pox appeared obscurely; and a third, in which its complete 

 existence was positively ascertained. 





