Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-09-01

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From the Columbian Centinei.
kline PCX,

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TAR. WATERHoUSE takes This method
~ to anfwer a number Of queries put to him
by letter and otherwile refpefing the nature,
and inocula:iod of the K1as b5x
III. Rei5.1is- III t5ztakio,s ? II appears BY all
the obferyati6ns md experiments hitherto made
Public thac the difeafe is not contagious or
catching from one Perfon to another. Even
the COWS do NOT take il Of each other, if an open
rail fence BE interpreted between them DR..
WIS, children labouring under the dforder
GePt through the whole eourle Of with thole
nor then inoculated for il. Il does not iesm
Pcai5le lays DR.. JsHEKR) for the contagious
matter 70 produce The dleafe from efluvia, or
by any other means than contraa : 20 E5at a IN
ge ind0iduaij in djdjtLg mig5f a any time refti1s
i eOitJ1uft5erU @hEti4g tie ref OF If l6rs4ding
d5aCzi5sr l5aE E4S country QOit5 fsrror. a per
ion hang had the ln1aiI pox cannot have the
fpcciic iegcr of The kline Pox. Hecsn hav. The
local afeSion czly.
III. RetPeaisg Grtiny Prsvioa, 70 receivi5g tie
dgsajc? DR. wv. had rather inooulate perlons
IN the biEifaA 9fbtaab without the leal pre-
viou. alteration Of Diet, or mode Of hv-
ing.
Sd. K is difficult to anfwer the queries ref
peding the Ailda5f ar fgeriiy Of tbe Ajoydr !?
DR. WATERHousE 2ntwers generally that in
vat majority Of cafes, il is incomparably mild
er than the inocrlayed tr1all po1, and il ap.
pears from experiments 10 Egglan3 that it has
become rniid-r as i progreGed. Thus accord
ing 70 Dr. Woeduia't laE report out Of sIo cafes
only SO had PUZZLES that fdppurated viz. out
cf the FRI bundled I9 had puRles out Of the
jseond IS; and out Of the LAT 10 only 7 had
puales. There have been few cafes, how
ever whereft has proved an heavy difeafe, the
patient being buuhened with between 1000
and 500 pulties. It's Prefumed that had fuch
perlons been inoculared for the fnall-pox they
would have died.
4th. III 70 bs Esq Jsgi6g f5r receiviag tte Dr.
eaje 10 this regi9n the fsaion preferred for
inoculation Of the Kline PIX as well as Jmal pax,
| is from ArgEe 70 November coolifh nights and
| ripe fruit are plealant aliiants to the inocu-
lato7. Very cold weather is unfavorable TO the
! Kia:Pox. 1t aggravated the foreneGs Of The
arm TO that degree in England that the moe
ulatofs were obliged TO poltpone their opera
! tons uUtii warmer weather. Cold combined
! with dampnefs IS wort Of all About a dozen
perfons paGed through tie diltemper at Can
Bridge, when the weather was hotter, than
ever was known there ince the ule of thermom.
eters.
5th. To thofe of the faculty who have ap
Piled 10 him by letter 10 ja9py them gUib mst.s,
far iaocalation-he would jot ohferve that as BE-
/ has taken mach pains ia this buiincfs, run nc
fnall rik Of reputation, as we'll as Of Psrfona
feelings, there are few he truas that will won
der he is anxious to have the matter under hi.
own eye until the Pra6tice is more firmly e(tab
lined by the public opinion. A few unfuccels
fui cafes al The beginning, deprived scotland Of
the belIia8s Of incubation for the frnall po,
for more than 20 years. Re hopes this ide.
will operate as an execute al Pref:nt even in ID
minds o. lis q dsg,aaf pupils.