Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1805-04-24
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OFFICIAL LNTCRJLfTTOM.
The Spanish Consul, near the United
States, residing in Philadelphia, intorms
the Merchants of The United States, tina,
the port of 81. Augustine, in Florida, is O.
pen, for the Importation ofprovisions ; but
in order TO be admitted, they must procure
a passport from the respective Spanish
CohsuIs residing IN the United States.
The foiiozvirg is extracted from the third
|. humber of J" The Philadeittiia Medical
Maseum," cosiacfed by John Redman
Core, IA. D. IT PHILADELPHIA, and Just
fubhshed 6y Mr.. Thomas Do9son, at NO.
81, South Secend Srreet.l
The following valuable extract from a
Paris paper, (the Gazette NationsIe on lie
Moniteur Universel, for Oh. 4, i8o4) will
doubtless be read with the highest satisfac-
tlpnhy The friends ofyaccination tdrongh-
out America, as an ample proof, in addi-
ton TO former Testimonials, -of the seeur;-
ty obtained by that practice against The
small pox.
IS His excellency the miaister Of the in
terror, has communicated SO the central so.
cicty of the vaccine established near him,
the result ola counter.proof which by the
concurrence OF circumstances accompany
ing IL, ough, 10 make an epoch in the his.
Tory of vaccination.
= Six black children, the first who were
vaccinated in the Isle de la Reunion, isle
de Bourbom and whose injection after
wards served for more than 5000 other
individuals, were embarked in the vessel,
the young Caroline, (infected with the
small pox) and carried TO one Of the Isles
des Sc5 cheiles, where the vessel was o.
bliged to perform quarantine. These six
children remained three months on board,
constantly placed in the focus of the in
lection; and pains were taken to mike
them live, eat and sleep with the infected.
They were also, during the quarantine,
twice inocuisted for the small box, each
time with large missions in both arms.
u IS stated by. the register, daily kept,
that these SIX children having slspt under
the bed Clothes ofthc persons baying the
small pox, in contact with their pu
stules, eating and drinking out ofthe same
utensils, having been twice iDocalated
from those, who afterwards fell victims
to their disorder, were preserved from all
coniagion, and continue ct the present
time III perfect health.
." This counter-proof is perhaps the
strongest in the history of vaccination,
from the particular circumstance, that
these six children after reaching the
place OF quarantine, lived for Is days in
The midst oftwentY blacks in the continent
small pox, of whom six are dead Of
twenty 10 twenty-five other blacks in the
state OF scabbing, dssiccaiion and convale-
scence, seven of which number died before
the vessel arrived; and all were contained
between decks of a small vessel, in a space
ofs feet by 10 or IL. This counter-proof
merits place in theimmense collection of
useful experiments made in Europe upon
vaccination il fulSls moreover, the i'm
Portant end proposed dy government, and
1t confirms IN the most unqualified maa
ner the anii-variolic property, which the
numerous trials made by the most dis
unguished physicians had attached to the
ne" incubation"
II IS be hoped that after reading the a.
bove, even the most scep,ical will be con.
vinced, hatstricter attention ,othe anon.
allies OF thedisease, will serve to explain the
supposed cases of subsequent small pox
and enable US to guard against their fu-
ture occurrence.
EN,-Nu