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ner in which he expofed himfelf to future 
infection. When fome younger branches 
of the family were about to be inoculated, 
Mr. D. relying on his own fafety, amufed 
himfelf by examining particularly the va- 
riolous matter brought by the furgeon for 
the purpofe, holding the phial in which 
it was contained, upon lint or cotton, to 
his noftrils, to fmell it, &c. He paid 
very dearly for the indulgence of his curi- 
ofity, for, after the ufual interval, he be- 
came ill, and went through the {mall pox, 
quite as regularly, and more feverely than 
thofe of the family who were inoculated. 
A peculiar anxiety was excited, not only 
for the fatety of his life, but allo, in his 
own mind at leaft, for the prefervation of 
his perfon from the dreadful disfigurations 
occafioned by this cruel dittemper, as he 
was then on the point of masriage. 
Cafe 4.—Mifs Sarah H. of Sudbury, 
was inoculated, when a month old, by 
Mr. B. a furgeon, of that p'ace. The et- 
fe& of this inoculation was not quite fa- 
tisfa€tory to her mother, becaufe, though 
the arm went through the regular. pro- 
grefs, there was not any general puftular 
eruption, which, indeed, has never been 
deemed neceflary to the fuccels of varioious 
inoculation, The furgeon, however, 
thought her perfeétly fecure ; and'ona 
fubfequent occafion, when fome other 
children of the family were to be inocu- 
lated, and Mrs, H. defired that, for her 
own fatisfa€tion, the operation might be 
repeated on this chill, he affured ber that 
it would be altogether impofiible to pro- 
duce any farther infection. The event 
proved him miftaken. The child was 
inoculated, and had the difeafe in the fame 
way as the other children. 
In addition to thefe four cafes, I fhall - 
produce the hifory of five others, which I 
jong ago prefented to Dr. Jenner, as in- 
flances of imperfect or fpurious {mall-pox, 
communicated by inoculation, and re- 
ferred to in the evidence which I gave to 
the committee of the Houfe of Commons, 
appointed to inquire into the merits of his 
petition. They all occurred under my 
own obfervation. 
Cafes 5 and 6.—In the Month of May, 
17838, two children of the Rev. G. O. of 
W.B.in Staffoidthire, «ere inocuiated with 
variolous matter, obtained from a furgeon 
of the firft refpectability in a neighbour- 
ing town. The operation was-performed 
alfo in the manner recommended, and com- 
monly employed, by this very experienced 
practitioner ; a circumfance which is here 
mentioned, becaufe to this mode of oper- 
ating I have ever attributed the fubje- 
quent uregularities and eventual failure 
Letter from Mr. Rutt. 
.of the procefs. 
(Jan. 1; 
The arms inflamed more 
rapidly than ufual: at the end of a week 
con{titutional fymptoms took place, and 
were followed by an eruption of pimples, 
which increafed in fize, and continued to 
appear in fucceflion for fome days ; and 
then, together with the conflitutional ill- * 
nels, gradually difappeared, and the fores 
in the arms dried up and healed.. From 
a diffatisfaciion with the refult of this 
incculution, both children. were, a few 
weeks afterwards, inoculated in a different 
mode, and pafied through the difeafe with 
the moft perfect regulanty in all refpects. 
Cafes 7, 8 and 9.—In the latter end 
of the year 1794, five children of fome 
workmen at the Brades fteel-works, near 
Birmingham, were inoculated with fome 
recent matter taken from one or two only 
remaining puftules, in a very late period 
of the natural {mall pox, frem a child of 
one of the domeftics of the Rev. Dr. Hal- 
lam, Jate dean of Briftoi, at Charlemont, 
in Staffordthire. Of thefe five two only 
paffed through the difeafe with regularity 
—the other three had a complaint very 
much refembling that of the Jafi mention- 
ed two children of Mr. O, attended wi-h 
eruptions ; a fort of imitative or {purious 
{mall pox. On this account they were af- 
terwards fubjeéted to inoculation with the 
matter of an earlier Mage, and then had the 
difeafe in its common form. The two 
former were likewife inoculated again, but 
thefe refifted the infection altogether. 
Iam, Sir, 
Your obedient fervant, 
Spital Square, J. ADDINGTON. 
Deci14, 1804. 
Te the Editor of the Menthly Magazine. 
SiR, 
SHOULD have thought it unneceflary 
to detail the exa&t manner in which 
Mr. Hollis had expreffed that regard for 
the late Mr. Wakefield, which, I am per- 
fua'ed, he fincerely entertained; bat as 
the writer of ‘¢ Further Particulars of 
Brand Holiis, Efq.”’ in your laft Obituary, 
p- 453, has judged otherwite, I fhall 
thank you for an opportunity of correé- 
ing his account, which I dare fay was 
communicated from the beft information 
which he had received. 
Scon after Mr. Wakefield’s death, Mr.. 
Hollis prefented a complete colle&ion of 
his works to the Library in Red Crofs- 
fireet, and at the fame time defired Mrs. 
W .’s acceptance of 1001. which was fome- 
what more than double their price. This. 
is the tranfa€tion inaccurately ftated in 
the Obituary ; where, by an inadvertence, 
Mrs. Wakefield, as your readers may per- 
ceive, 
