THE 

MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 
No. Be | ; 
FEBRUARY 1, 1800. _ [No.1. of Vo. 9- 

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SIR, 
N conformity to your defire that TI 
would communicate to the public, 
through the medium of your valuable Ma- 
gazine, fome information refpecting the 
progrefs and fuccefs of inoculating for the 
¢ow-pox, I fend you the following. 
In my reports of the new inoculation, 
publifhed in May laft, including upwards 
of 500 cafes, I obferved that the matter of 
the vaccine difeafe generally produced 
much fewer pultules, and lefs indifpofition, 
than that of the fmall-pox. But at the 
fame time it was remarked, that/in fome 
inftances the cow-pox proved a very fevere 
difeafe, and that one child died of fpafmo- 
dic fits, occafioned by the eruptive fever 
which it excited, Ihinted, however, that 
if the matter of the cow-pox ufed for the 
inoculations had been taken only from 
thofe patients in whom the difeafe appeared 
very mild and well charafterifed, the re- 
fult would have been more favourable ; 
and [have fince had the fatisfa€tion to find’ 
this opinion fully confirmed. For of roco 
perfons inoculated for the vaccine difeafe, 
by me, or under my immediate direétion, 
during the laft fix months, not more than 
150 had puftules which proceeded to fup- 
puration; nor was there one cafe attended 
with a dangerous fymptom. 
Now out of 1000 perfons inoculated for 
the {mall-pox, I find generally that more 
than 800 have puftules ; and as the feve- 
rity of the difeafe is commonly in propor- 
tion to the number of the puftules, it fol- 
lows that the cow-pox is milder than the 
imoculated {mall-pox in the proportion 
above mentioned. 
To infants at the breaft the new inocu- 
lation has proved peculiarly fuccefsful, for 
T have now had a very confiderable num- 
ber of private patients of this defcription, 
in none of whom was the inoculation at- 
Monturx Maa, No, 55. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Mayazine. . 
tended with any puftules, and even very 
rarely with any perceptible diforder of the 
conftitution. An inftance-of this kind, 
Mr. Editor, you had in your own family. 
That thofe who have undergone the 
vaccine difeafe, are thereby rendered fecure 
againft the effects of the fmall- pox, is a 
truth confirmed by daily experience. 
Upwards of 1000 of my patients, who 
had undergone the cow- pox, have been in- 
oculated with variolous matter, yet none 
af them tock the fmall-pox. | 
Ely Place, Your’s, &c. 
Fan. 11, 1800. Wm. WoopviLLeE, 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
ON THE HUMOUR OF ADDISON, AND 
THE CHARACTER OF SIR ROGER D 
COVERLEY. | ( 
HAVE often been furprifed-at the opi- 
_ nion fo decifively maintained by many 
Englith writers, that Aumour is a quality 
in a manmer peculiar to this ifland. Ifits ° 
proper definition be the difplay of the ri- 
diculous in charaéters; or if it be under- 
ftood, more comprehenfively, for ludicrous 
painting in general; it muft have exifted 
wherever comedy, or any other mode of 
delineating the rifible follies and peculiari- 
ties of mankind, has been fuccefsfully at. 
tempted. The wame is of no confe- 
quence; the ¢himg is a part of human na- 
ture itfelf. Weare told by late voyagers, 
that the rude natives of fome of the South. 
Sea iflands exhibit remarkable talents at 
humourous mimickery, and take off, with 
fingular drollery, the charatteriflics of the 
European failor, as well as the defeéts of 
their own countrymen. The Kamtfhadale 
is extremely happy in’ caricaturing the 
manners and actions of the bear, an ani- 
mal fo nearly on his own level, that it is 
no degradation of the human creature to 
make this beaft the fubjeét of his jocula- 
rity. But torecur to civilized life, is it 
pofiidle 
