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French translator, to Birago, Godine, &c.; but it has refused 
it to Woodville, Simoos, Viborg,_ of Copenhagen, Sacco, and 
your reporter, and recently to M. Depaul. Moreover, inter¬ 
rogated in the same manner, and to all appearance under the 
same circumstances, the results are sometimes in the affirma¬ 
tive, at others in the negative. It was thus that the veterinary 
professor, Mr. Coleman, became, from his first experiments, of 
a difiPerent opinion to Jenner, but by his second he was 
brought back to JenneFs views. Since that time scientific 
opinion has fluctuated between the two, without being able 
to fix itself, for the view taken by Jenner has never been 
entirely aVjandoned, although at long intervals only voices have 
been raised to defend it. The last are those of MM. Mau- 
noury and Pichot. On the 5th of March, 1856, a journeyman 
blacksmith, twenty-eight years old, found himself suddenly 
attacked on the hands by pustules, which were very painful. 
He showed them to Dr. Pichot, who found they had the ap¬ 
pearance of vaccine, which had arrived at the eighth or ninth 
day. Brissot (that being the man^s name) had not been 
vaccinated, neither had he been near any cow, none being 
shod in the forge where he was employed. But, being pressed 
by questions, he admitted that he had, on the 11th of 
February, shod a horse, which,according to the statement of the 
veterinary surgeon of the locality, was affected with grease. 
From the 11th of February to the 5th of !March there are 
twenty-four days; but as the pustules were from eight to nine 
days old, the debut would only amount to fifteen days. What, 
however, was the true nature of those pustules ? W'ere they 
vaccine ? There was but one way of ascertaining that, which 
was by inoculating with the virus, and this M. Maunoury 
did; he inoculated a child eight days old, taking care to use 
a lancet which had never been used before. Five punctures 
only produced one pustule, which, however, had all the 
characters of the genuine cow-pox. At the same time 
M. Maunoury sent some of the virus taken from the man 
Brissot to the Academy, but the experiments made with it re¬ 
mained without effect. The virus of the child was now sent 
to the Academy, and this time the result of the experiments 
was all that could be desired. There were as many pustules 
as punctures. The same question again presents itself. Were 
those pustules vaccine ? It is answered, yes, without doubt; 
for these children, having been revaccinated with proved virus, 
resisted the second vaccination, which is an uncontradicted 
proof that the first was effectual. But whence came the pus¬ 
tules on Brissot? All the circumstances lead to the belief 
that he got them from the greasy horse, which he had shod a 
