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proper scar left behind; or on the other 
baud, when they were put to the test of 
variolous inoculati ion, no other effect was 
produced, than what is occasionally pro- 
duced in those* who have previously had 
the smail pox. 
Tt was also insidionsly reported that two 
persons died of the cow pock (or as it 
has been termed, the ‘ vaccine ulcer”): 
but it 1s positively asserted by the sur- 
geons who inoculated them, that no vac- 
cine ulcer, nor cow pock, took place in 
either of ihncea instances ; and that the 
patients died of other diseases—one of 
them of apoplexy. 
Joun Rive. 
WiLtiamM BuaiRe 
J. S. KNOWLES. 
The preceding Report having been sub- 
mitted to Dr. Fowler, an answer (dated 
Sarum, Jan. 31st) has been received, im 
which he says, “ I perfectly approve of 
this report; as it very accurately ex- 
presses the opinion which I have formed, 
of the causes of the supposed failures of 
vaccination at Ringwood.” Mr. Rose 
has likewise permitted the Jennerian So- 
ciety to add, “ that he has seen this Re- 
port, and concurs init, so far as he is able 
to form a judgment on the subject.” 
Printed by Order of the Conus Court. 
Cuarres Murray, Sec. 
Extract of a Letter from Mr. Westcott to Mr. 
Blair, dated Ringwood, January 10, 1808. 
‘¢ Mr. Birch must now be convinced by 
my answer to his letter, that his statement 
is directly wrong, respectinz the failures of 
vaccination at Ringwood ; and you are at per- 
fect liberty to make use of my name, in any 
manner you may think proper, to convince 
the world that Mz. Birch has asserted a false- 
hood.” 
Copy of a Letter from Mr. Westcott to Mr Ring, 
dated Ringwood, January 15, 1803. 
DEAR SiR, 
T am of opinion that not one person in Ring- 
wood, or its neighbour! hood, caught, or had, 
the Sirall Pox after going tarough onlar 
and complete Vaccination. 
I remain, dear Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
W.WeEsTcortT.. 
PS. 
sooner, 
Jast evening, 
sentiments. 
Yours would have been answered 
but Icould not see Mr. Macilwain till 
He says, these are exactly his 
Proceedings of Public Societies. 
Q4 4 
C:py of a Letter from Mr. Macilwainite Mr. 
Ring, dated Ringwood, Fanuary 25, 1808. 
Dear SIR, 
In answer to your letter, which was dated 
21st instant, but which I only received on 
Saturday the 23¢, I have to inform you that 
the resolution which appeared in the Salis- 
bury and London papers, respecting the Vac- 
cination here, contained my sentiments, and 
that I have no reason to alter my opinion at 
present. The advertisement I allude to is 
the following :——. 
‘« After a most carefui and minute inves- 
tigation of those cases in which the Small 
Pox occurred subsequently to inoculation for 
the Cow Pock, it appeared, that such inocu- 
lation had not taken effect, or that when an 
effect had been produced, the progress of v.¢} 
Cination was gel at so asto render the 
patients insecure. 
‘¢ The result cannot fail to be highly ine 
teresting to the inhabitanis of Ringwood, and 
of the neighbouring parishes 5 inasmuch as it 
must remove the feeling of alarm which had 
been excited, and restore and confirm the con- 
fidence of the public in a practice affording 
protection against a pestilential disease, justly 
esteemed the scourge of the human race. 
‘© The investigation was made in the pre- 
sence of some of the most respectable gen- 
tlemen of the town and neighbourhvod, by 
Dr, Fowler, of Salisbury, and a deputaiion of 
three members of the Royal Jennerian Society 
of London.” 
I proposed to re-waccindte many persons 
with the matter you were so kind to give me, 
but I only usedit in two instances, IN BOTH 
OF WHICH IT SUCCEEDED. 
I cannot say more to you on the subtect of 
Vaccination, than I did when you were at 
Ringwood. I consider it as an inestimahle 
blessing ; and solemnly and seriously am of 
opinion, that it is a preventive and effectual 
preservative against the small pox, when 
carefully conducted: and if the people of 
Ringwood had allowed themselves to have 
been fairly and honestly informed of its me 
rits, the lives of many would have been 
saved, and the malicious intentions of some: 
persons in this quarter, to stigmatize the Jen-~ 
nerian system, would have been defeated. 
The enemies of vaccination did all they 
could to propagate the small pox among 
those. who were desirous of the cow pock ; 
and the people were much too incautious to 
give the new inoculation any thing like a fair 
cnc 
If any thing worth communication should 
occur, 1 shall very gladly avail myself of 
your desire to hear from me. in the mean 
time, 
I am, dear Sir, 
Your most obedient Servant, 
G, Macitwain. 
VARIETIES, 
