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tion, and he gives two instances : the first a young girl, daughter 

 of a consumptive father^ subject to vomiting, and continually- 

 labouring under oppression, with a cadaverous aspect spotted 

 with livid blotches. After a fortunate and successful vaccination, 

 she in a few months recovered the best possible state of health. 

 The second example was a child two years of age, naturally 

 delicate, recovering from an inflammation of the breast, but still 

 pale, very feeble, and oppressed. This child, after vaccination, 

 speedily recovered strength, acquired a good habit of body, a 

 free respiration, and an excellent state of health. M. Maunoir, 

 of Geneva, on this occasion adds another instance : a child, 

 whose arm was covered with dartrous eruptions, which inflamed 

 during the influence of the cow-pox inoculation, and assumed 

 the appearance of as many cow-pocks. After the vaccination was 

 over this child got quit of the eruption entirely. The same 

 person affirms that he has observed, even after false vaccina- 

 tion, a sensible improvement in the health of delicate infants.* 



Similar results have been announced in the Spanish expedition, 

 with an intention to publish them.f 



Dr. Sacco, in his treatise Delia Facci?iazio7ie (Milano, 1809), 

 affirms, that when vaccinating infants alfected with palsy in the 

 arms or lower extremities, troubled with chronic diseases of the 

 glands, &c. he made a great number of punctures on purpose, 

 to the amount of 30 or 40 : that some of these patients were 

 perfectly cured, and that the health of others was considerably 

 improved. | 



M. Barrey, of Besan9on, observes that vaccination had been 

 performed, in 1804, in three villages belonging to his department, 

 on 141 infants under 12 years of age, constituting more than 

 one half of all the children under that age in the place. In 

 1809 no fewer than 134 of these children enjoyed perfect health, 

 7 alone having died of different diseases; but of the children 

 that had not been vaccinated no fewer than 46 were dead, though 

 no small-pox had visited the country during the period. If under 

 this last number be only included the children that existed in 

 1804, and not those born between that period and 1809, we 

 must conclude that vaccination had rendered the children less 

 susceptible of other diseases ; but Mr. Barrey's observation is not 

 sufficiently precise to enable us to estimate its importance. § 



The facts contained in the Correspondence of Paris present 

 themselves in a much greater number. If we refuse to admit 



* Bibl. Brit. vol. xv, p. 383. M. M. La Mark and Gaultier de Clanberg 

 have communicated to us observations to which the^' were witnesses, very similar 

 ito those of Mr. Dunning. 



f Bibl. Brit, vol. xxxv. p. 245. 



:|; Traltato della Vaccinazione, p. 112; and Bibl. Brit. voL xlv. p. 168. 

 % Bibl. Brit. vol. xxxix. p. 95. De la vaccine et de ces effets par C. A. 

 Barrey ; Besanjon, 1808. See also Biblp ^lit, vol, xxxyi. p, 352, 



