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590 Retrofped? of Domeftic Literature—The Veterinary Art, Sc. 
Had the evidence been contradictory— 
had one man ftated the inefficacy againg 
another, who boafted of its power oF pre- 
venion—if one in ten, or fifteen, or 
twenty, had exhibited unfavourable facts, 
the petition of Dr. Jenner muit have been 
rejcéted : preponderating evidence would 
have been again him, if ten cafes even 
in ten thot‘and could have been fairly 
and firmly eftablified, in which the fmail- 
pox had furceeded to the true conftitu- 
tional infection of the vaccine. The ob- 
jection, therefore, is idle, unlefs Mr. Lee 
means ‘o tofinuate, that the committee on 
- the petitin conducted the examination 
with -arjality: this, upon what ground 
we know not.-has been fufpected; but, 
if we conider the inadequacy (according 
to their ideas of th: petitioner’s merit) of 
the fun voted, there is so very ftriking 
prefumption of its truth. Mr. Lee has 
brought ‘onward two faéis im cppolition 
to the efficacy of the cow-pox: when vac- 
-eination had gained fo much ground as 
to excite oppofition, it is well-known that 
a great number of thefe faéts, as they 
were fuppofed to be by thofe who alleged 
them, were brought forward to invalidate 
the practice; but on minute inveftigation, 
fome circumftance or o' her was always de- 
tected, which brought the facts themfelves, 
at leaft, mto fu!picions Had Mr. Lee 
ftated his caes before the committee of 
Dr. Jenner, they would have been care- 
fully {crutinized ; and, we are authorifed to 
believe, from the Pinar of fo many fimi- 
lar reprefentations, would have been iound 
guilty of tome inaccuracy, ot which the 
a i no doubt, utterly incon{cious. 
Dr. THorRNTON has publithed fome 
more ‘ Faas 4 deeifive in Favour of the 
Cow-pox, including an Account of the 
Troculation of thé Village of Lowther, 
under the Patronage of the late Earl of 
- Lonfdale.” 
<¢ Praétical Obfervati ions on the Inocu- 
Jation of Cow-pox, pointing out a Telt of 
a Conftitautional Affe@ien ia thefe Cafes 
jn which the local Inflammation is fight, 
and in which no Fever is perceptible, il- 
luftiated by Cafes and Plates, by James 
Bryce, Member of the Royal Cx i] ege of 
Suretans, Edinburgh, &c. and one cf the 
Surgeons to the Inititution for the gratui- 
tous Inoculation of the Cow-~pcex.” A 
confijerable portion of this work is com- 
led from the publicatiozs of Dr. Jenner. 
The only snainela perticen of impor‘ance 
is that which prof. Aes to afford a tet of 
confiitutional affeciion. If a, perfon, al- 
ready under vaccine-inoculation, receives 
every day a frefh lancet, armed with ichor, 
till the fever induced by the firft inocula® 
tion fupervenes, ail the punctures will ad+ 
vance, with progreflive rapidity, inverfely 
proportioned to their priority, fo that the 
areola of the laft punGture will be perfeét 
as foon as, and at the fame time with, 
the firft. Mr. Bryce recommends a fecond 
inoculation, to be performed as a crite+ 
rion of the efficacy of the firft: if the pro- 
grefs of the fecond is not accelerated, and 
its areola fynchronous with the fir, the 
firftis ineficacious, and was probably a 
mere local affeCtion. ‘This is an ingenious 
ut there are fome flight objections 
againit he practice, which we have not 
room to ftate in this place. Mr. Bryce 
advifes the fecond inoculation to take 
place between ‘thirty-fx and forty-eight 
hours before the areola of the firft is ex- 
pected to appear. .“ If the fecond mocu- 
lation is not accelerated, but proceeds in 
the ufual courfe, it will prove that the firft 
was not neceflary to produce the conititu- 
tional effe&, and, therefore, that a third — 
fhould be perfopmed, as a counter-proof 
of the efficacy of the fecond.”” 
‘THE VETERINARY ART. 
We mutt content ourielves with the 
fimple enumeration of a few traéts, which 
evince, that that noble animal, the horie, 
fo much fubfervient to our pleafures and 
our neceffities, is every day becoming an 
object of. more care and attention to men 
of fcience:—The following is an ufeful 
work, «¢ A Compendium of the Veteri- 
nary Art ; containing an accurate Defcrip- 
tion of all the Difeafes to which the Horfe 
is liable, their Symptoms and* Treatment s 
the Anatomy and Phyfiology of the Horie’s 
Foot ; Obfervations on the Principles and 
Practice of Shoeing ; "on Feeding and Ex. 
ercife, the Stables, &c. illufirated by. 
Plates, by James Wuuite, Veterinary 
Surgeon to his Majefly’s Firft Royal Dra- 
goons. 
eafes of Horfes’’ is an able performance. 
The Veterinary College publifhes its 
*¢ 'Pranfactionss”” 
‘VOYAGES, TRAVELS, AND TOURS. 
<¢ Travels in Upper.and Lower Egypt, 
in Company with fcveral Divifions of the 
French Army, during the* Campaigns of 
General Bonaparte in that Country, and 
pubitifhed under his immediate Patronage, 
by Vivant Denon, embellifmed’ with nu- 
merous Engravings, tranflated by Ar- 
TuuR Aixin.” Our Englith philofopbers 
have exprefled much difappointment at 
the labours of thofe literary men who ac- 
companied the Firft Conful to Egypt, for 
the exprels purpofe of explaining. its ancien 
mons 
Mr. Denny’s “ Treatife on the Dit. 
