On the mortality of the small-pox. With a comparative statement of the effects of variolous and vaccine inoculation / [Anon].

  • Royal Jennerian Society.
Date:
[1806?]
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Credit: On the mortality of the small-pox. With a comparative statement of the effects of variolous and vaccine inoculation / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    introducing the cow-pox into the Mediterranean. They began at Gibraltar, where the practice underwent a severe trial, the garrison then living on salt provisions, in consequence of the plague having stopped the supplies from Barbary; and the thermometer frequently stand¬ ing 00 deg. Notwithstanding this, the soldiers under vaccination performed their regimental duties as usual; not one case occurred where medicine was required, nor was any application requisite to the inoculated part. Proceeding along the Mediterranean, the practice was introduced at Malta, where, it seems, the ravages by small-pox had always been dreadful. Here an hospital was established by the governor, called the Jennerian Institution. At the time Dr. Marshal was at Malta, the armament there consisted of one hundred king’s ships, and about the same number of transports, on board of which a large army was embarked. Mr. Ring justly re¬ marks (p. 567), should the small-pox happen to rage through such a fleet, in such a latitude, what havoc must ensue! It was received with enthusiasm in Sicily, where the small-pox had been, if possible, more fatal than at Malta. Hospitals were established at Palermo and also at Naples, and the salutary effects of the Jen¬ nerian discovery were soon felt over the whole of Italy. In the Italian republic alone. Dr. Sacco and others had vaccinated upwards of seventy thousand, by the end of the year 1802, (Ring, 1011)—and this number has since increased, under that active inoculator, to four hundred thousand. The number inoculated under Dr. Marshal’s immediate direction was upwards of ten thousand; about two thousand of whom were afterwards subjected to every possible means of infection by small-pox, but without effect. (Report, p. 68.) In the year 1801, it was introduced into Russia. The court was at Moscow, on account of the coronation of the f