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to the. Weftminfter Hofpital, and one of 
the Conductors of the Medical and Phy- 
fical Journal, is in corref{pondence with 
the Faculty on the Continent as well as in 
England; has received accounts of the 
progre!s of yaccine-inoculation from New 
York and Pailadelphia ; from Paris, Mal- 
ta, Italy, and Germany ; from all which 
parts its excellence ig confirmed, and it is 
now likewife introduced into Turkey. He 
laid before the Committee all the publica- 
tions and papers he had received on that 
head. Ke looks upon Dr. Jenner as the 
author of the vaccine-inocuiation, and be- 
lieves no, medical man in the world doubts 
it ; and in his extenlive correfpondence he 
has never heard any other pericn lay claim 
to it; he believes vaccine-inuculation will 
prevent the fmall pox to the extent of hu- 
man life; for the natural cow-pox has al- 
ready been proved to do fo ; and there 
have been decifive experiments made to 
prove that vaccine-inoculation will misé- 
gate the finall-pox, when caught in the 
natural way. The {purious fort ef cow- 
pox can be readily diftinguifhed from the 
real, by an examination of the plates 
given as illuftrations of the practice by 
Dr. Jenner 5 he thinks that if Dr. Jen- 
ner bad. fettled in London, and kept the 
practice a fecret, he might have made 
£.10,000 per arnum for the firft five 
years, and double that ium afterwards ; 
for notwithfanding the affiduous labour of 
Dr. Jenner and others to infiru& praéti- 
tioners, important errors are daily com- 
mitted in if, both at home and in foreign 
parts. He believes that not lefs than two 
millions of perfons have been inoculated 
with vaccine-matter in the world, and he 
has never knewn one initance of a patient 
dying in confequence of this mede of ino- 
culation; and he has only heard of four 
cafes which were faid to have failed, to 
the explanation of which Dr. Woodville, 
Mis. Cline, and Mr. Ring can fpeak. He 
believes the compuiation of deaths occa- 
fioned by inoculated {mall-pcx, to be one. 
in three hundred, in England ; and not 
lefs than one in one hundred and fifty, 
throughout the rei of Europe, Africa, 
Afia, and America. (No. 35.) _ 
Dr. Woopvitie, Licentiate of the 
Royal College of Phyfcians, and’ Phyfi- 
cian to the Small. pox Hofpital, confers 
Dr. Jenner. as the origina! difcoverer. of 
-vace:ne-inoculation. He has. introduced 
it in one of the hofpitals under bis care, in 
confequence of the communications of, 
Dr. Jenner. He gives the preference to, 
the vaccine over th: {mall-pox inoculation, 
becaufe he finds it equally certaia in fecur- 
Report of the Cominittee on Dr. ‘Jenner's Petition. 
[Aug T, 
ing the patient from the fmall-pox; becaufe 
it is without danger or rifk of life, and 
not, like the fmall-pox, contagious. One 
patient in the hofpital was faid to have 
died of the vaccine inoculation, but in his 
opinion it was not fo, as he had previoufly 
caught the {mall-pox m the natural ways 
te which his death oughtfo be atiributeds 
the csie of failure which Dr. Bradiey men- 
tioned, was a child who had been inecu- 
lated with the cow-pox, but who died in 
confequence of a bow<i complaint, attend- 
ed with adiarrieea to fo violent a degree, 
that he attributed its death te that difor- 
der, and not. to any thing belonging to 
vaccine-inocniation. He has inoculated 
7500 patients up to laft January with the 
vaccine-dileafe, about haifof which num- 
ber have been fince incculated with fmall- 
pox matter, innone of whom did the {mall 
pox produce any effect. The mortality 
eccafioned: by the fmali-pox wall be found 
in the calculation delivered in; which 
agrees with Dr. Blane’s. (No. 3.) 
Sir WaLrer F arquuar, Bart. Lie 
centiate of the Royal College of Phyii- 
cians,and Phyfician to his Royal Highnefs 
thePiince-ot Wales, ftated, that he never 
heard of vaccine-inoculation previous to. 
its intreduction by Dr. Jenner. Two of 
his own grand-children were inoculated at 
the fame time ; one with the fmall-pox in 
the ufual manner, who had it at firlt in a 
favourable manner, but latterly cttended 
with conlfiderable eruptions and convulfion 
fits ; the other child was inoculated with 
the cow-pox, which he underwent in the 
mildett manner poffible, and on the 12th 
day from the inoculation was brought 
home to his brother, and lived with him 
during the progrefs of the fmall-pox, 
without the {malicft fymptoms of catch- 
ing it. He confiders vaccine-inoculation 
as the greateft difcovery which has been 
made for many years ; thinks Dr. Jenner 
has fuffered in his fortune materially by. 
makicg this difcovery. public ; that on its. 
firit being communicated to him by Mr, 
Ciine, he faid, that if Dr. Jenner was con- 
fident of its fuccets, and would refide in 
London, he would infore him £.10,000, 
per annum ; but. that if he futfered. the, 
fecret to be divulged, every prastilioner 
would get heid of it, and Dr, Jenner lofe 
ali chance of emolument. Tis has ac- 
tually happened, and he has therefore loft 
the opportunity of making his fortune. — 
Ke is of opinion that vaccine-inogulation, 
ig a permanent fecurity again variclous, 
infection, and it never has proved fatal. 
The general computation of the mortality, 
oi the fmall-pox, wen periormed in. the, 
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