Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-09-29

KINT POX

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AIR. av-,rIL.
HAVING fycral times convened 10 the
public thro' thc MEDIUM al YOUR paner what
ever | found mott in yorr ut relpe6tng the De
cuiiar nature cf the hire b.u, III hopes that this
comparatively mild drltemper would one day
banilh from Ike face VII lhe earth one of the
mott ihockine dlorder- that at1lifs mankind,
now with To convey through he fame medi-
nm the rclllI Of my fLal experiments On my
own family ESPECIALLY Is / could nor make theic
trials time enough To iIlcrt them in my treI-
titc
-Four Of my children with their mother en-
tered thc hotp-al at BrooLinc, about fort
night ago. One gil between ivsn and eigbt
years of age another boy between fvt & IN J;
The third boy Of three and the lat an infant
Of bout an gar ola I; tile Other a boy Of lzvelue.
All ot them had The f mptoms Of the Knep oX
very diitndiy (as nay W ieen II my late pub
Iodtio.) excepting Ms little girl trf mention
cj, ana hers we've II light, that II was fome-
What dubious whe her the infection had pene-
u2Jed further th3n her arm. Or. Alpnwall
inoculued all ,hel- ri the tIme time, executing
The by lat named, who underwear, the expc
rIment j fortnight Before.
The mother Of Jhe1e fur children (who had
tile tmau Pox y inocI,iuon more than dozen
years ago. luferel hr.l-f On a former occa
GOn to be re noculatej with the fmlll pox
matter in order to compare the appearances
on her arm with theirs from hour 70 hour
They were ex4aly fmilar both having 4 ed
nels. iorene!s, aud by The 9th day a fetered
appearance, but VOID of that deep felt h4rd7sG
which chara6tcrz-s th- fnall PIX in common
with the kise.Pox, and that pecu lar BRUTE.
coIoured hue, known only I'LL fhc eye Of expe-
rience. On the 7 / day, wh-n ablorpton would
have taken place, had not the fytem been
proof a9ainf il, the lores luddeoly changed
their afpea. dried up and every fgn Of infa.
nation van1hcd, leaving M veHige Of dllorder
behind nay. thete recovered at Bro kline that
ruddinels which tbey had in lome degree LOT
by P'aing through the Kline oI, 70 that ez-
cePung the infant, who was under the proceis
IF teething, fix hearter looking young perlous
are feldom feen Ia one family.
Thus have | confirmed the truth of my az
iertion that The COW. or KINE-POx IS A PER-
Feet SECURITY AGAINST THE SMALLPOX. by
actual experiment on Fix perfons of different
APES and habits, and performed too BY as care
fol and ikillul an incubator as is il the coun.
try, and who has not failed 10 a Jingle inGance
to communicate the infection for long time.
To determine the contagion, ornOn- contagion
Of the Kne-Pox made icveral experiments
have rubbed the matter on the tender fsin of
my children, without any efef whatever AS
| inocullted my family in fucceAion, kept the
dilede ii it from the 6rlt week ID July to the
preleut TINE. And altho one child who had it,
iept with another who had it not, no one Of
them has ever taken the diGemper any other
way than through the eyoanded Kin; and hay
Ing ino1ulDted nearly an hundred fnce, have
met with nothing that contradias this aGertion.
The redion' inducing fome PhyiicIans IL Lon
don to fntPed it's contAgion, have sndsavored