The Sun.
London, England, 1804-08-16 00:00:00

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t- The following Letter; inserted irt the Dublin
journal, 'from a Medical Gentleman of high proles.
sionals eminence in Dublin, is of very considerable
importance, as it completelY,shews the fallacy of an
idea entertained by some persons, that the Vaccine
Inoculation will only operate as a preventative
.against the Small PDX for two or three years, and
that at the end of that period its effect ceases :

" sr R,• . _
" Having had for some years past the Medical
and Surgical Controul of 'two great Institutionli
.namely, the Foundling Hospital and Dispensary
for Infant Poor in Dublin, which_ have afforded
Me ample means of co-oporking with other's in
distributing 'the benefit of Vaccine Inoculation
throughout this city and kingdom; I 'feel anxiotti.
to contribute, , as' far as in. my 'power,' to restore td
every person that: confidence in' the permanent
efficacy of Cow-Po& Inoculation, which truth
must ever command, and which a late publication
from Mr.. Goldson, uri,son at Poitsmouth, leas
called 4i :question.. As the express Objed. of Mr..
ration, Goldson's work is to strew- that the Vaccine Inocua
tarn theSmall-Pox for two cr three years, had, in, ca•
although,'found todie a preventative against
cases, ceased to prove so a; the end of that pe•
tiod, the following experiments were made to ascerm
tarn this important point :
" On the 24th of July last, I made choice of IS
healthy children, some of whom had been inocu-
lated by me near four yeais, and all above three
,years ago, .with Vaccine Infection (the first used
in the kingdom), every one of whom had the ail..
ease in the most perfed manner,' as' appears frogl
different records kept' in-the Foundling Hospiqii
and the distind mark of Vaccine Inoculation on

the arm of each • child; and, having procured a
child with a great quantity of Stnall-Pox Infidian
in its most adive state. , Lcommitted them•to the •
care of GeOrge Stewart, E3q. Surgeon-General,
who, with the greatest attention, inserted the vs-
riolous matter (taken from the ripest pustules of
the Small-Pock 'child) into, the arms' of each of the
-is children, and afterwards Continued them in the
same room with the sick child, where they have
'ever , stoce remained, having constant
,commupies'
• tion with it, and frequently lying in the son°
bed, ,&c.
" On the third day the: pitheltires in the arms
of
every chili; inflame and continued to,go on in most
of them in the usual way..of Small-Pock 1"c"13"
tion until the eighth day, when all gradually beg"
to decline without , prOducitig either sickness or
eruption, sufficiently eVincing that the Cow Pock
Inoculation had proved a pertnarient protection t°
the constitutiQp .of every one of the, foregoing:6°7
dren froth the Bnull-Peek. •
Conceiving that a business so highly interesting
in its nature could not be conduded with too .mach
precision and itiNlicity,. r have great pleasure. VI
precision and lhici(i, r hav great pleasure.hhl
suhjining "the naThet of Ihe followieg respetleblc
professional GentleMen,' who were• sq good. As ,e 0
witness the progress, and who join with me.im on:
gratulating the Public on: the happy result, of those
experiments.

14 J. CR I GHTOI4.
" tolin Crampton, Esq. M. D. Member Coll. pliy
Ceu. Kenny, Esq.:—K.,l,ph.S.•OrElre,,, Esq.—Abr. QlSe",
Esq. rvlember tLe Royal College of Surge9ns.
Surgeon 3d Kegt. Dragoons. • .
• Jones, gsq. Assistam,Surgeon, do.
► ---.lll4lSlally, Esq. Suigeon, .Armagh • .

Of) Sunday evening a.young man threw
intonear Battersea, and though eve"'
exertion 'was•uied by several people who sacV 1114
affair, it was some time. before a'boat could he pr°'
cured. He WaS tal;co otni carried to the'nc3r;
est public-house,where ever/ means were viol 1,,
restore life, but without effecl : he has since. bee"
owned.. A depressiUn of spirits, owing to some re-
cent dis'appuintment, is -said to have bcun the cate
of this.rash aft