The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-09-22


munity, valuable and intereaing fact, which
ilews that much more advantage is likely to
aiiie from the difcovery of the Cow Pock Ino-
culadon, than the luxurious DIR. Jcnner and
his at'ociates ever fufpe6fed.
Yours, LECTOR.
DIR. DE Caro-, of Vienna has addrefIed let
ter 10 DR.. Jenner containing the following ex-
traordnary circumstances, tending to prove that
the PAreioioHJ incubation is a preventative of
the plague
" Your difcovery has produced fome confe-
quences which you furely were very far from
foreieeing, when you made it known to the
world. believe that ! once mentioned to you,
that French phyfician, Monlieur Lafont,
thought he had obfsrved, that vaccnated peo-
pie were not attacked by the plague. He def
cribed 10 me the facts which RATED the luf,ici
on they were few, and not very conclulive,
but he ipoke of his new obfervation with model
ty and prudence, and thought only that the fub-
Jet deferved his farther attention. Another
phyfcian at Conftantinople, Monlieur Auban,
who never had any communication with M. La
font, who is Of Salonica wrote to me about a
year ago, that he alto had fome fulpicion of the
Cow Pox being prefervative aganlt the plague
did not mention facts, but faid that fcveral
people had obferved the fame, and many vac
cnated themielves as a fecurity againft the
plague. Gueis what was my aftoniiilment when
a few days ago, received, through the French
ambaiiador at Vienna, packet of DR.. Auban,
who begins his letter with thefe words. "What
had the honor of mentioning to you long ago
concerning the Cow Pox being fecurity againt
the plague, as probability, can now, after
many experiments fpeak of amon as a certain
ty. He defcribes the facts fummarily in his let
tiers, aud adds two process verbeauX, figned by
him and feveral witnelies, deliring citizen Cham
pigny and myfelf to give them every pcf1ible
publicity. The proofs are:
| III. OF COCO vaccinated at ConRantinople,
moi one mas taken the plague.
I'd. That infants previouny vaccinated have
tucked without injury, the milk of nurfes in
fetted with the plague.
| sd. That an Italian phyhcan, Dr. Yari, who
went to CUnitantinople to ltudy the plague, was
! 10 periuaded of the truth of the new difcovery,
that upon the fole iecurity of having been vac
cinated, he fhut himfelfi in Lazaretto, and had
with people attached with carbuncles and bu-
boes, various modes of contact, without any
effect.
18th. That the fame DR.. Valli Inherited into
! his own hand, mixture ofvariolus and pe1ilen-
tial virus, and having felt no effect from that fri
al, he meant the following week to infert pefti-
lentiaI virus alone.
9Th. Thai DIR. Auban, having been informed
that in fome villages near Confanfnople, the
cows were iubied to fome eruptions on their
udders; he, with fcverdl other gentlemen of
the French enbaiy, went to thefe villages, and
! found the cow pox then exiting. The report
OF the Inhabitants was, that they had never feen
the plague OF the fmall pox among them, though
both t5eie dileafes made dreadful ravages in
their vicinity.
"Such my dear fir" continues DR.. De Car
70, care the extraordinary facts which have
been communicated to me. / have now and
then correipouded with NJ. NJ. Lafont & Au-
ban; their correspondence announces much me-
dical information. The fccond, acquainting
the world with fiich an important medical difco.
yery, runs certainly great riik if he difcovers
] 1t BY taiis and haay oLie!va.ion."