Star.
London, England, 1803-02-12 00:00:00

CALPANISAL

Some curious GAY:tide cxperiments were made
n Friday laa by Profcifor ALLINI, in Dr. PF
SON'S Leeture Rooms. They were by tar more
intereaing and fatisfaaory than any sue have yet
noticed, owing to the pain, taken to procure the
titteit fubjeas for tae operitions. They were inai•
Muted is the pretence of his Excellency the Am•
baffador of France, Genzral ANnuosst, Lord
PE(. HA Lord Ra:BURCa, Lord CAS rGCRFACH.
LordlicavFy, the Hon. Mr. U? rov, Mr. Cnot.-
HON nt t v, 111r.Ascrtt.x.s, Mr. Er.t.aor, and feveral
other Gentlem.-n of rank. The Profelf.T was Atria-
d ably, as nri for MCI' OCCArSUPS, by Mr. CARPVL,
Mr. CLITHSFRTsON, 4n,1 Mr. HuTcniNs.

Among other important faits, it was decifively
!hewn,
t. That a vital attraaion fohfills between a
rot ye and mufcl::fi,r the fufpendtd fciatic nerv,:s
of a frog, after detaching the (pine, being hroug:tt
near the intercoaal 'flacks of a dop,, while she
Allifiant who held the frog did, with his other
hand, touch the mufcles of the thigh of the dog,
(ihas forming a circle) ; in this fituation, the
nerves ftilpended approached, and came into con-
taa with the mtifcle, as eviden:ly as a filkca
thread is attraeled by foaling wax.
2. The heart of a rabbit was excited to a&ion
in a little time after the animal was killed, Lot vi-
tality difappcared much fooner than in the other
mufcles, In th it this organ is the primum, and not
as IlasvEy aliened, the ultimum morieru. The
lungq, liver, and fpleen could not be excited to
anion, even immediately after' the animal was
killed.

3. The moll important fan of all, was that of
exciting contraFtions by making A circle of nerves
and mufcles of different animals, without any me-
tallic excitor or conduElors.

4. The head of an ON, recently decapitated, ex-
hibited ailenifhing effeas: for the tongue being
drawn out ►by a hook fixed into it, on applying
the exciters, in fpite of the lirength of the AlM-
ant, the tongue was retraEted, fo as to detach it-
fell, by teasing itfelf from the hook ; at the fame
time a loud noife iffued from the mouth by the
abforption of air, attended by violent contortions
of the whole head and eyes.
After the exhibition of there phenomena of Gal-
vanifm, which, among other philofophers, particu-
larly occupy the attention of the FIRST Co.istst.,
the company partook of an elegant ddeurte and a
converzatione in Dr. PEARSON'S Lode.

The freights from Jamaica for the current year
have been fixed at only fiurfbilliav per cwt. the
fame rate of freight was given in the year 1783.
Yefterday the Right:Hon. the Loan Mayoa pre-
fided at a Wardmote, held at St. Mary Magda-
len's Church, Fifh-lireet, for the Eledion ot an
Alderman of Caine Baynard Ward, in the room
of Mr. RIGBY, deceafed. On a thew of hands be-
ing put, it appeared that SMITN, Efi. a
Sugar Baker, was unanimoufly defied, Mr. Axle-
ANDER having withdrawn his oppofition.
At the Vaccine Inoculation Dinner, on Monday
1.11, among the toafts given, after the healths of
the Royal Family had been drank, were the fol-
lowing The Promulgator of the Vaccine
Inoculation, Dr. Janata-3. Dr. WOODYILLI-
3. Dr. PRARSON, with a due acknowledgment of
his fervices in eftablithing the new inoculation by
the evidence of fads.—Dr. Pearfon, after thank.
ing the company for this honourable teftimony of
approbation, addreffed them in an appropriate
fpeeelt, and gave an account of many particulars
refpeeling the management and objeds of the in-
flitution, which could not be noticed in the report.
He drew a moll pleating piastre of the advantages
which individuals already derived from the Cow
Pock, and anticipated, with great fatisfaftion, the
beneficial confequences that would anti, in two
refpeßs, from univerfal inoculation throughout
the United Kingdorn.—tft. That by thefe means
from thirty to forty thoufand lives would be an.
preferved.—sd, That, in a few years, the
Small Pox by this pradice would be exterminated.
To accomplith thefe views he contended that laws
to oblige every fubje& to be inoculated within a
certain period after birth were effentially necelary.
as well as the immediate prohibition of inoculation
for the Small Pox, He obferved, that the latter
meafure alone would be quite inadequate, and
maintained, that to render the Cow Pock univer-
fal by compullion was no more an infringement of
the liberty of the fubje9, than to prohibit, as al-
ready propofed, the Small Pox inoculation. The
number 101 l by inoculation for the Small Pox was
not, he Paid, an objea of national importance, as
it amounted to no more than from fix to nine in a
thonfand, but when it was confidered that it could
fcarcely be raid there was any more danger from
inoculation for the Cow Pock than from A punc-
ture with a clean lancet ; that the fymptoms
were always much (lighter than in the Small
Pox Inoculation, and that by rendering the
Cow Pock Inoculation imiverfal, the infehion
of the Small Pox mull he extinguiihecl, it was
certainly very desirable that the Cow Pock In-
oculation Bintild become an objed of Legiflative
attention. The Dotor then anfwered the objec-
tions made againft increating population. in con-
let-pence of a fuppofed want of provisi ins to main-
tain it, by thewirg that the refources of agriculture
were not vet thoroughly underftood, and that an
increase of pomil ction would be accompanied with
an increase of indullry. He ()Nerved alio, that
the overgrown power and immenfe population of
France required, in a political point of view, that
every means Should be employed. on our part, to
increase out population, and illuftrated his argu-
ment in favour of the Vaccine Inoculation, by re.
marking, that going through the Small Pos. in
the cabal way, or by Inoculation, and eliciting
I the Cow Pock inflead of the Small Pox, were like
crotling a river in three different ways :—ltt. By
fssimniing or wading :hrough it, in which 97 put
of a 'coo pctithA : 2J, By gniag over in boats,
by which mode from 6 to 9 in a thoufand were
:011 3.1. By means ot a bridge, ',fining which
ipalfage no one perished, except tram comics which '
might operate is any other fituatioss.