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Wapootea to be excited by it. He has in- 
oculated a large proportion of his patients 
with variolous-matter afterwards, without 
any dileafe being produced. He further 
fiated, that he was acquainted with the 
extent of Dr. Jenner's medical practice 
before he left Gloucefterthire, where he 
was fituated ina very populous neighbcur- 
hood, without any praétifing phyfician 
within 16 miles 3 well fupported, and of 
éourfe in the moft confiderable practice ; 
and he thought that in confequence of his 
quitting his fituation in the country, and 
coming fo town, he had leffened his in- 
come moft confiderably, as two phyficians 
had fucceedéd to the fituation which Dr. 
Jenner had left, both of whom are in con- 
fiderable practice ; and of courfe Dr. Jen- 
ner’s former iituation cannot be ré-attain-. 
able. (No. 40.) ore 
Mr. Jorban, Member of the Royal 
College of Surgeons, two or three years 
ago inoculated between one and two khun- 
Gred with vaccine-matter; fome matter 
was received by him from the Apothecary 
of the Inoculation Hofpital (over which 
Dr. Woodville prefides) for vaccine, 
which proved to be variolous ; the pa- 
‘tients, not being prepared for it, were 
tery ill, but recovered ; he has avoided 
thele miltakes finee, by taking the matter 
himfelf from the patient ; and has learnt 
by Dr. Jenner’s publication how to diftia- 
suith dnd felect the proper time for taking 
it, fince which no mifake of the kind 
above-mentioned has occurred. He is of 
Opinion that errors of that kind brought 
vaccine-inoculation fora time into difre- 
pute. (No. 25.) ' 
Mr. GaRDNER has known Dr. Jenner 
mote than twenty two years, and been in 
the conftant praétice of hearing his medi- 
cal opinions and difcoveries. It was in 
the month of May, 1780, that Dr. Jenner 
firft informed him of the particular nature 
of the cow-pox as a fure preventive from 
fmall-pox, and the theory he had framed 
on the fubjeé&t ; declaring his fuli and per- 
fect confidence that it might be continued 
in perpetuity of inoculation from one hu- 
man being to another, in the fame way 
with the {mall-pox, and in time fuperlede 
that difeafe. (No. 26.) 
Dr. THORNTON, Phyfician tothe Mary- 
le-Bonne Difpentary, ftatedthecafe of two 
children belonging to Lord Somerville’s 
coachman, whom he inoculated three years 
age, with what he fuppofed to be true 
€ow pox matter ; the matter from which 
the inoculation was performed at that early 
pericd of vaccine-inoculation, was taken 
indifcriminately,as long-as there appeared 
a pv ftule from whence maiter couid be pro- 
Report of the Committee on Dr. Fenner’ s Petition. 
Aug. 7, 
cured, he being unacquainted at that times 
that the cow-pox inoculation ceafed to 
produce the difeafe after a certain period, 
which was known to Dr. Jenner, and pub- 
lifhed by him, and forms one of the im- 
portant difcoveries refpecéting the new * 
practice ; he was fome time afterwards 
informed that thefe two children had the 
{mall-pox, and upon examining their arms, 
there were found no fears, which is 4 cri- 
terion that thefe children had not had 
the true cow-pox, and he was con- 
firmed in this belief by the mother of 
the children declaring that the puftules 
had advanced more rapidly ‘than in the 
true cow-pox; this cafe appears to 
him important, as exhibiting a proof that 
all other cafes adduced againft the general 
principle of fecurity from vaccine-inocula- 
tion, muft arife from want of acquaintancé 
of the inoculator with the period when to 
take the matter; which difficulty he 
deems to be now compietely done away, 
by Dr. Jenner having elucidated a fubject . 
befere involved in much obfcurity. He 
further ftates, that matter taken from a 
puftule, which was a week old, never 
failed to produce the true cow-pox ; but 
n the aforementioned inftances of the two 
children, he has great reafon to believe it 
was taken the fourteenth day, or later: 
he ftates another fource of fpurious cafes 
in the Jancet being corroded with the cow- 
pox matter, on which it is placed ; he ino- 
culated a week before fome patients from 
the fame matter with which he moculated 
the afore-mentioned children, who went: 
through the difeafe in a regular way ; one 
patient in particular has been, during thefe 
laft three years, inoculated with fmali-pox 
matter at leaft twelve different times ; he 
has even flept with a perfon who died of 
the natural {mall-pox, and has been other- 
ways expolfed, but could not take the in- 
feétion: he fays, when he was in the™ 
north, at Lord Lonfdale’s, he inoculated 
upwards of one thoufand perfons, and com- 
pletely fatisfied himlelf, and all the medical 
practitioners in that part of England, that 
the cow-pox was a mild difeafe, hardly de- 
ferving that appellation ; not contagious, 
never disfiguring the perfon, never pro- 
ducing blindnefs, never fatal, mor excit- 
ing other difeaies; equally fafe, whether 
during the period of pregnancy, or the 
earlieft infancy, or extreme old age.— 
(No. 20.) ; 
EariBERKELEY fated, That his young- 
eft fon was inoculated with the cow- 
pox, by Dr." Jenuer, at fix months old, 
and went regularly through its courfe ; 
about a year after a maid-firvamt in the 
family caught the fmall-pox in ei 
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