Vienna, August 25th. According to the latest information received by Dr. de Carro, from different physicians, and the governor of Bombay, it appears, that vaccination has become general in all the British poffeffions in India; that the neighbouring Afiatic princes vie with each other in obtaining from them vaccine matter, in order to propagate it in their states; and that hopes are entertained of foon hearing that it has been introduced into Tartary and Japan. A paffage tranflated from an Indian Manufcript, written by a native prince, and published in the Bombay Gazette, proves that fome of the Bramins, many centuries ago, were not only acquainted with the cow pock, but with vaccine inoculation; that the operation was performed by means of an impregnated thread; but that it was not common, as the Bramins inoculated only thofe children whofe parents worshipped the Bhowany, a female deity, the protectrefs of those who have the small pox. The goddess is generally reprefented riding on an ass; and the father of the child to be inoculated, brings her an offering, confifting of corn, which he takes from his bofom, and gives to the ass to feed upon. The ceremony is repeated as foon as the cow pock appears. Governor Duncan, of Bombay, has tranfmitted this information to Dr. de Carro, with a handsome letter, and a prefent of two valuable fhawls and three pieces of most beautiful muflin, for his lady. Tilloch. Dr. Bremer, physician to the great Orphan Hofpital at Berlin, obferves, that in 100,000 cafes of vaccination, that have more or less immediately come under his cognizance, not a fingle inftance of fubfequent small pox has occurred: he has himfelf vaccinated more than 4,000 fubjects. In every cafe to which he has been called, where fmall pox was fuppofed to have taken place, he found it to be a fubfequent vaccine eruption, an appearance that frequently takes place, and which commonly dries away in about a couple of days. A more rare cafe is, he obferves, that where, after from 8 to 12 weeks, an ebullition takes place in the blood, producing on the fkin large puftules, or veficles, (bulles), that afterwards become covered with a crust, which falls off, and is again renewed, during feveral weeks, unless calomel be employed, which produces a fpeedy cure. This takes place especially among the children of the poor, who have other acrimonies floating in the blood, and which the vaccine inoculation puts in motion. Med. & Chirurg. Review. VACCINE INOCULATION. Statement of the Number of Perfons inoculated at the Stations of the Royal Jennerian Society, in eighteen Months, from the Quarter N. B. In the fame period, 19,352 charges of vaccine virus have been fupplied from the Central Houfe, in Salisbury Square, free of expenfe, to applications from most parts of the British empire, and foreign countries. 400 Westminster 218 275 It will doubtless be highly gratifying to the public, to observe the remarkable decrease of deaths by the fmall pox, as appears by the following comparative view, extracted from the This decrease will appear ftill more important when compared with the annexed statement of deaths by small pox, for fifty years, within the Bills of Mortality, averaged by ten years. From 1750 to 1759 19,642 22,039 Making an annual average of 2018 deaths per fmall pox in fifty years. The following is an annual statement of deaths in the pre It is hoped the knowledge of these facts will be strongly promotive of the beneficial practice of vaccine inoculation, it appearing that the fatal disease of small pox has progressively declined as the ineftimable,difcovery of Dr. Jenner has been. introduced. Medical & Phyfical Journal. દર "Pofterity will be surprised that the doctrine fhould ever have been maintained and published, and by medical gentlemen, that the cow pock only fecured for a time. It was limited at first to two, afterwards to three, and then to four years. Three children of Mr. Henry Jenner, inoculated five years ago, have fince been repeatedly inoculated with variolous matter, and exposed to the infection of the natural fmall pox, in its worst form, every year up to the prefent time, without catching the disease. Pead, vaccinated by Dr. Jenner more than fix years, and Phipps, his first patient, vaccinated by him more than eight years ago, have been frequently put to the fame tefts with impunity. In the fpring of the present year, they were inoculated for the fmall pox with matter in the most active state, but they refifted infection. Note to Dr. Thornton's letter on the cow pock. Tilloch. As it is incumbent on every friend to vaccination to oppofe as foon as may be, any false reports against the credit of this practice, I think it useful to introduce the following. A child of Mr. Clapier, merchant of this city, having been repeatedly ftated to have taken the fmall pox, by inoculation, after vaccination, I called upon the phyfician who vaccinated him, and obtained from him the following certificate. Je fouffigné, medecin exercant à Philadelphie, certifie avoir vacciné deux fois l'enfant de Mr. Clapier, negociant de cette ville, dans le courant du mois d'Avril, 1802, fans autre effet qu'une légère inflammation de peau, produite par la piqure, qui s'eft manifefté des le lendemain de la vaccination, & qui a été fuivie d'une petite puftule dont la croute eft tombée le fixieme ou le feptieme jour; ayant été bien convaincu par les fymptomes mentionés ci-dessus, qu'il n'avoit pas eu la vaccine, je là declaré affirmativement à la famille, & depuis au Dr. Wiftar qui m'en a fait la demande avant de l'inoculer. Philadelphie, le 18 Decembre, 1804. J. A. MONGES." Mrs. Lillibridge, who lately died of the fmall pox, was reported to have taken it after vaccination; but on inquiry, I found fhe had never been vaccinated. The fon of Mr. Emerick, baker, in Market-street, I was told, had nearly loft his life by a severe attack of natural small pox, after vaccination. On making inquiry of his parents, I found the boy much marked from the difeafe which he had caught last winter; he had, however, never been vaccinated, but had been inoculated for the fmall pox when two years old, (the cicatrix of which was very confpicuous on his arm), and had it very favourably; he then had several pock, which left marks on him; he is now about twelve years old. I shall here take the liberty to introduce the following-- COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE VACCINE and SMALL-POX.* Small-pox. Firft. This disease is in the highest degree contagious: hence those who never have had it, cannot without extreme hazard, mix with fuch as labour under it. Vaccine. As this disease is not contagious, the feparation of the well from those who are under its influence is entirely needlefs. * See "Practical Obfervations on Vaccination,” p. 105. |