Star.
London, England, 1804-10-18 00:00:00

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TO THE Eni OK Ut THE STAR.

Sta—When Dr. Pistilli firfl introduced Vaccine
loocutation, I declined adopting it. Inoculation
with the Small Pox I had long praaifed without a
Angle Inf. ; I had alfo fixed opioions in phyfiology,
which militated again(' what was advanced by him-
felf and hit. friends. In procefs of time, however,
loch a mils of clear, undilputed, decilive evidence
came forward in Ilopport of the newly difcovcred pre-
fervative, as to he irreliftible to a mind not hardened
beyond the fulcrptibility of convinion ; and, confe•
gutsily, whatever might have been my previous no-
tions, or my habits of thinking, I could no longer
waft in the ufe of variolous matter.
I will not fay that my own prattice in inoculating
with Cow Pox Matter has been fo confiderable AS that
of many others,or that I havemade a variety of cape-
riments, with a view to underhand or explain any of
the phenomena of the difcafe ; hut I will fay, that in
the Small Pox both natural and inoculated, my ex-
practice has been ample ; and from that experience
alone. I tow enabled to compare the merits of
Small Pox Inoculation. with thole afcribed to the
jewberian prat: ice. From my owe expetience, then,
I can dint, firfl, that whatever bar ken laid again,
the 18M-testy of Cow Pock Muter, as a fecurity
. aganill vat inlons ;oration, may be alio fold with truth
asivf Smolt Poe Matter, as a fimilar fecurity. From
• tiny awn experience I can, fecondly, often, that the
. fuhfeguent ill effeets which base been fad to follow
Cow Foe, have, in a ten fold greater degree, followed
Small Pox. And (Ally. from my own knowledge.
I can Oat (and who of long (landing in the prolef-
Boa cannot do the fame ?) that many intiances of
• Mortality have happened in Small Pox Inoculatioa,
whilft intone ail wMeh hat beenfait4 not a tingle ex-
ample appears of death from Cow Pock.
In behalf of my fira affertion, I can recollett nu-
Memos fans ; but, as I write for the public, and on
a moll important (Aka, I will Rate nothing in fup-
port of that affertion, which (hall ref( folely upon
my own credibility or memory, I will, therefore, ,
confine tnyfelf to the three following cafes :
Mr. Joan PHILLPOTT4 of this City, well known
and efteemed in his profeffion of the Law, was ino-
culated with the Small Pox in his infancy, together
with an elder fitter, by their father, with tie fuss
outer, et the foss time, and both were nurfed by
their mother, and two petfuns accuftomcd to Small
Pox, of grad judgment, and now living. The
young lady had the -Olifeafe to aMalarming virulence ;
the boy's arm inflamed, he was indifpofed, and had
font or five eruptions on different parts of his body ;
and Mrs. Pill LLPOTTS lays, they appeared to her to
go on after the manner of other Small Pox pollutes.
In his twenty firft year I was defiled m vifit him as
being in with Come eruptive fever. He had jull
appearing in different parts of his body ; the next
time I few him, nothing but the pofitive affertion of
hisafelf and his friends, that he had had the Small
Fox, could have' made me doubt that they were va
riotous. On the following day that doubt was en-
tirely removed. He had a plentiful crop of puitules
of the diaina kind, which went regularly through
their Sages of fuppuration and feat:bill.
In Septenaller 4794, I inoculated a daughter of
Mr. Joao kI:DHALL, of this city, with matter, which
I kid toles sorb, from a variolous Cubic& The
child's arm inH trued, the was indifpofed, and had a
few eruption., which did not fupourate. About'
twelve months after, I inoculated her again, and the
had then the diftina Small Pox, with all its ufual I
circumftances.
Mr. Coots, an eminent apothecary of this city,
defired in. to fee a patient, who had Come years be-'
fore been inoculated by a praltitionei of rctpcttability
and experience, for the Small Pox, together with tetil
others, in the Centime i's own Small Pox Houle.—
The patient fuppofed, that he then received and went
t: rough the difesfe, and the inoculator ;stinted him'
of it. When we tithed him, he was then blind with'
Small Pox, which went through its ufual (loges.
In fupport of my fecund affection, I need not hake
my own credibility at all. My experience can only
coincide with the telliarnies already before the pub
lie, of the 6mall Pot routing up Scrophula in all its
malignant varieties, and being followed by phleg.
mons, upthalmias. Ste. while nothing beyond tutu-
emus eroptioTlS has, to the beft of my recollatilion,
been imputed to the Cow Pox.
But as to my third affertion, its troth is. fo °Diver-
fatly known, that all proof is unneceffary.
I (hall go then to the inferences to be drawn from
what has been premifed. From the cafes fuppoi tine
the hill affertion, it appear., firil, either that Come
individuals may receive the t:mall Pox hitcaion
twice; or elle, that the patient may be iifetled to a
certain degree with variol-ms maher, but not in as to
make an indelible imprelEnn on the Conaitution.
either CAlt, their inoculation with the Small Po: has
no adva•ssage, as• • protecting (vanity, over the
Cow Pox. Let it be Paid, that the pral,iti,tncr who
inoculated the patient fuppofed to be ilifeaed a lc.
cond time, vra., in the firlt inliance, :Tiller inattentive
or deceived by doubtful appearancci; r that the firft
time his patient was not inoculated with teal Small
Pox matter, or with Small Pox matter in a proper
late. To the Sill fortiv-fition, it mull be arfwered,
that in the general praCtice of Cow Pox Itoo-:,lotion,
it is not to be believed that operators will be more
fogacions, more diferiminating, or most so entive
that their predecefhas have been in Small Pox Ino-
culoion t and to the fecund, that lim:lar clams are
jntt as likely to prevail in Vaccine It.nculatian : fi
that the concloCion mull he, either that tlictc ere in-
dividuals, in WI, OITI the facep:,;,ility of the Small
Pox is not dcllroyed by a v. LII condo!tcd pt.•,*crs
'Cher of the C.se Pus or Small I've lu Cll4OlOll,
or that, in the iiillanses, when CI i;4C I.lr C
the other failed to• keine the irto.id•lal
future Small l'ox, the p.octis dud t
as to make the proper impreffion on the ci iia,
• lotion; or haply, that in the iti-colati••:1, itnprruvr
Platter [nun have been uf, J ; w:wh,
key( burl the tale in the two JV coarrip rr in r,
jr roving my.ftil eirtnica.
Three initasice. have been brought fro scat: amidd
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the voluminous yeti:it:as for and aganti the C,iev
Inoctilai.os, where it faikJ of (cooing the paticia
against Small Pot ; two by Mr. Gnostical, of
and one in the London P.sperc of the
beginning of this mouth. -Whether the patients were