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dale, was the fame as now adopted; but 
by fome vague pretenfions of the former, 
the public opinion ran very generally in 
their favour, till Baron Duvfdale pub- 
lithed nis account of the Suttcnian method. 
(No. 14.) 
Mr. Ciine, Member of the Royal Col!- 
lege of Surgeons, and Surgeon to St. 
Thomas's Holpital, fiated, That in July, 
1798, he received fome vaccine matter 
from Dr. Fenner, with which he imocu- 
lated a boy who had not had the fmall- 
pox; when he had gone through the 
tages of vaccine-inoculation, he tried to 
infect him with the fmall-pox, by inocu- 
lation, but in vain; this circumftance, 
together with the communications he re- 
ceived from Dr. Jenner, procuced the 
ftrongeft convistion in his mind of the 
great utility of this praétice, and he there- 
fore recommended it ftrongly to all his 
friends, amongft whom was Sir Walter 
Farquhar, and he perfectly recollects the 
converfaticn relative to the emoiument 
Dr. Jenner might derive from the pree- 
tice of vaccine inoculation; but Dr. Jen- 
ner at that time declined fettling in Lon- 
don. Mr. Cline looks upon it as the 
greateft difcovery ever made in the prac- 
tice of phyfic, for the prefervation of te 
human race, as the-fmall pox had been 
the moft defiru&tive of all difeafes. 
Mr. Cline was confulted upon the cafe 
of a child of Mr. Auftin at Clapton, with 
whom it was faidthe cow-pox inoculation 
had tailed ; but from particular enquiries 
ef the parents and nurfe, he was perfectly 
convinced the child had: never received the 
vaccine-difeafe 5 and this evidence Mr. 
Taylor, the Surgeon, who inoculated it, 
confirmed. He thinks that experience has 
fufficiently demonttrated that perfons ino- 
culated with the cow-pox, are incapable 
of receiving-the fmall-pox; and he be- 
Jieves that in the inftances where the finall- 
pox has been caugnt, and the patient has, 
before the coming out of the difeafe, been 
inoculated with the cow-pox, it mitigates 
the virulence of the fmall-pox. The vac- 
cine-difeale is not contagious, nor does it 
create any blemifh on the human frame ; 
nor does it excite fcrofula, or any other 
difeafe, which is fometimes the cafe with 
the inoculated fmall- pox. . 
In November, 1800, he performed the 
operation for the ftone on William Rench, 
a child in Ifaac’s Ward of St. Thomas’s 
Hofpital. In a few days after, hearing 
that this boy was in great danger of catch- 
ing the fmall-pox, he dirygcted that he 
flould be iwoculated with the cow-pock 
matter, which took effet, and proceeded 
in the ufual manner; but in thirteen days 
Report of the Committee on Dr. Fenner’s Petition. 
15 
after this inoculation, a few eruptions ap- 
peared that feemed to be variolous. 
Admitting thefe eruptions were the true 
fmall-pox, the time of their appearance 
fhows the infection had been received be- 
fore the child was inoculated with cow- 
pox matter; for the natural {mall-pox 
frequently does net appear uatil ixteen or 
eighteen days after the patient has beea 
expoled to inieS&tion. 
A fecond cafe was in November 1801, 
the child of Mary Solloway, in Mary’s 
Ward of the lame Holpital : this child 
was known to have been expoted to the in. - 
fection of the {mall-pox, and therefore the 
mother permitted it to be inoculated with 
cow-pock matter; but in four days after, 
the {mall-pox appeared, and the difeale, 
was very fevere 5; however, the child reco- 
vere. 
A third cafe was a patient of Dr. Lit 
ter’s, who.e mother had the {mal}-pox.— 
In fix days after the complaint bad appear- 
ed in the mother, the child was inoculated 
with cow-pock matter, and the complaiat 
from this imoculation proceeded as uiual cA 
but in about fifteen days a jew eruptions 
appeared that were of a doubtful natare. 
From the molt minute inquiry, thefe are 
all the cafes which have occurred in S¢, 
homas’s Hof, ital, where variolous er p= 
tions have fucceeded the vaccine-inocula- 
tion, and in each of which there can be ro 
doubt that the patients were expoled tothe 
infection of {mall-pox previous to their be- 
ing inoculated. (No. 33.) 
Mr.Davip Tay_Lor, Surgeon of Woo- 
ton uncer-Edge, Gloucetterthire, {poke ta 
cafes which had been brought before the 
Committee,as jilproving the efficacy of cow= 
pox in preventing {mall- pox; the one a child 
of Mr. Auftin of Clapton, the other of a 
woman at Old Sudbury. ~ With reoard i@ 
the firt, be had inoculated the child with 
vaccine-matter himfelf, but did not fee the 
progrefs of the diforder, nor was the child 
attended by any medical perfon ; but from 
the account given by thole who were wigs 
the child, he was apprehenfive at the time 
that the vaccine-diteafe had not taken el- 
fect, and ttrongly recommended that fhe 
fhould be inoculated for fmall-po 
fhe afterwards caught in the natural Way. 
He ftated, that a full and minute inve(fj. 
gation of the fecond cafe had been ynade 
by five or “fix ‘perfons, who-wére unani- 
mous in their opinion that the 
Old Sudbury 
X» which 
woman at 
had never had the COW-Dox, 
Fis own praétice in vaccine inoculation 
has been confiderable, and he has inocu- 
lated about 2000 perfuns without a fin 
failure; nor has he met with any ulce 
tions, humours, or difeafes foll 
gle 
ra» 
Owing it, 
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