1807.) 
been differninated through the vaft Ar- 
shipelago of the Vifayan Iilands, whote 
chiefs, accuftomed to wage perpetual war 
with us, have laid down their arms, ad- 
miring the generoiity of an enemy, who 
conferred. upon them the bleflings ‘of 
were labouring: under the ravages of an 
epidemic finall-pox. The principal per- 
fons of the Portuguefe: eolomies, and of 
the Chinefe empire, manifetted  them- 
felves no lefS beholden, when Buabnis 
reached Macao: and Canton ; in both 
which places he accomplithed the intro- 
duction of freth virus, 1m all its activity, 
by the means already: related: a refult, 
which the .Enghth, on’ repeated’ trials, 
had failed to procure, in the various oc- 
cafions when they brought out portions 
of matter in the fhips of their Eatt India 
Company, which lolt their ethcacy on the 
pailage, and arrived imert. 
Atter having propagated the vaccine 
at Canton, as far as poflibility and the 
political cireumflances ‘of the empire 
would permit, and’ having confided the 
further diffemmation of ut to the. phyh- 
cians of the Enghith ta¢tory at the above- 
mentioned port, Balmis returned to Ma- 
cao, and embarked in a Portuguete veilel 
for Lifbon; where he arrived on the 15th 
of Auoutt. In the way he ttopped at St 
Helena, in which, as in other places, by 
dint of exhortation and perfeverauce, he 
prevailed upon the Englith to adopt ‘the 
aftonifhing antidote, ‘which they ‘had 
-undervalued for the tpace of more than, 
eight years, though it was -a difcovery of 
their ‘nation, and though it was fent to 
them by.Jenner himielf. - 
. Of that branch of the expedition which 
was deftined for Peru, it is afcertained 
that it was. thipwrecked in one of the 
mouths of the River de la Mavdalena ; 
‘but having derived unmediate fuccour 
from. the natives, from. the magittrates 
adjacent, and from the governor of Car- 
thagena, the fubdireétor, the three mem- 
bers. of the factilty who accompanied 
him, and the children, ‘were faved, with 
the fluid in good prefervation, which they 
extended in that port and -its province 
With-aétivity and‘tfuccefs. .Thence it was 
-earried to the ifithmus-of Panama ; and 
perfons, properly provided with all ne- 
eeflaries, undertook the long and painful 
navigation of the River de la Macda- 
‘lena’; feparating, when they reached the 
' interior, to°difcharge their commiffion ‘in 
the towns-6f Teneriffe, ‘Mempox, Ocana, 
‘Socorro, San Gil y Medellin, iy: the val- 
chey-ef Gueuta, wat im the-cities-of Pam. 
Gow 
Purpofe of introducing Vaccine Lnoculation. 
dering his ferviees beneficial, 
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plona, Giron, Tunja, Velez, and other 
places in the neighbourhood, until they 
met at Santa Fe: leaving every where 
fuitable inftructions for the members of 
the faculty, and, in the more confidera~ 
ble towns, regulations conformable to 
health and-lite,.at the time when. they . 
thofe rules which the direttor had pres 
feribed for the prefervation of the virus ; 
which the viceroy affirms to have. been 
communicated to 50,000 perfons, with- 
out one unfavourable refult. Towards 
the clofe of March, 1805, they: prepared 
to continue their journey in deparate 
tracks, for the purpefe of extending 
themfelves with greater facility and 
pebiantitube over the remaining diftricts 
of the vice-royalty, fituated in the road 
ef Pupayan, Guenca, and Quito, as far 
as'‘Lima. In the Augutt ier Has ei 
reached Guayaquil. . 
“The refult of this expedition has been, 
not merely to fpread the vaccine among 
all people, whether friends or enemies, 
among Moors, among Vifayans, arid 
among Chimefe ; but: alfo to fecure ta 
potterity, in the dominions of his Majefty, 
the perpetuity of fo great a benefit, 
partly by means of the central commit- 
tees that have been eftablifhed, a3 well 
as by. the difcovery which Balihis made 
of an indigenous. matter in the cews, of 
the valley of Atlixco, near the city ‘of 
Puebla de los Angeles; in the neigh- 
bourhood of that of Valladolid de Me- 
choacan, where the adjutant Antonio 
Gutierrez found it; and in ‘the diftriét of | 
*Calabozo, in ‘the provinee ‘of Caracas, 
where Don Carlos de*Pozo, eabatinee of 
the refidence,’ found it. 
“A multitude ‘of obfervations, | ‘Hit 
will be-publithed without delay, refpedt- 
ing the developement’ of the vaecine in 
-yarious ‘climes, and refpecting its effi- 
cacy, not merely in- preventing the na- 
tural {mall-pox, butin euring firoultane- 
-oully other morbid aitections -of ‘the -hu- 
man frame, will manifeft how important 
-to humanity will prove thé corifequences 
of an expedition, which has-no eee 
in hiftory. 
Though the object of this dndertiitits 
wes limited to the communication of the 
vaccine in every quarter; to the inftruc- 
tion of profeflors, and - to’ the: ‘eftablith- 
ment of regulations which might ferye 
“to render it perpetual, —«neverthelefs, the 
‘director has omitted-no means of the 
Se: 
fame tithe, to ‘agriculture and the cle 
séences.- He brings with him-a confider- 
able-collection’ of exotic plants. ‘Hehas 
tedufed to“ bet drawn | the ‘atott’ iwaluabte. 
fubjects 
