Show VACCINATION AS PRACTICED EIGHTY YER JENNER letter on Oft smallpox Ih 1 from r Greece Gi to a in ini r i by Lady Mazy Mary Wortley Mon Moa Monh iii dl hV nt h of Interest MEK to many at t this thie 11 j was a written 13 years yeam ago or vars the discovery C of ot tion fl by b Jenner ople April 1 O 0 S 8 S 1717 tn i nt of distempers I 1 am OlD going ji vU yU L a t thins th I ng U that th t will maJce m e yon FOG t v i ur ii lf f here The smallpox eo en end o ond 1 tJ 1 and nd d tO t o general amongst na us Is i 3 b by the invention which Is the term they t it Th Thre r re is I a set et of old women mal k it their b to perform I i in n every fery autumn in ia the tINt 1 h f ep ember when the pet great petI dt d dj I j nd iid to one to know f their hr ir family fa ilY has baa a mind t te ter oY r th they thy make 1 J and when they are ere I nr oI fifteen or to to i iI I i iI old woman come comes with aI a aMil Mil I I of or the matter of or the be beet tUX x and aaka saks what vein ma maI I I d to hi have opened She im tm imi I i Tips TI r open 0 that you OU offer to toi Ii i l large Jar arg l needle which gives p I j I loalD ain a n than a common n nI I md 1 nd puts in into th the vein ven an i i ih h at r aw aJI a can lie upon uz the head J r J UP dIp tI and aDd after that binds up I i wound und unil with Witt a hollow boIlow bit bH of ofin ofIn l in this manner ope open four or I II j h yHan ian lauS have the then theIo I JI In n Io of f opening one in lit the mid i forehead one in each ch arm I the h breast to mark the on aLga HS l but tide this thi has haat a a very ill ef of I I feet all these wounds leaving 1 scars and ia is not oot done by those thom t that are not superstitious 0 choose to have them in lie e less leg or that part pait of the theann arm ann that is in concealed conc led The children or young patients patie t play plaT together all the rest of the day and are in perfect t health to the eighth Then the fever begins to setae eze d then them and they keep l their bed beds bed two days das very seldom edom three They have very rarely above twenty or thirty spot pota in tn their faces which never mark lid in 10 eight days tys time they are as wet well ac as before their ill neat Where they are wounded w there remain running wres wies during the dis Leipe I dont doubt to Is a great relief t to it Every year thou un undergo deign dergo this tI operation and the French ambassador says ys pleasantly that Chat they take aIe the th nal ox here by way of dl di i von version a as they take the die waters in other Ie There Theft is I no Jk example 1 pf pt any on one ODe that ha hen baa died 10 In It and you youma may ma believe belle I am well of the they safety y of or till thIs experiment since I in intend In tend to try tIT it t on my dear little qu I 1 am patriot enough to take pens pains to t bring brine this useful invention into feh eh loft ion in IDo England and I should not ant fall fail 19 write to some me of ot our doctors very particularly about it it if I knew any one of them that t I 1 thought had virtue enough to destroy eMroy such a considerable coo branch of their revenue for the good goodof goodof of mankind But that distemper cH is Ic too beneficial be to them not t to expose exe to tc all U their resentment t the hardy bardy wight hat that should undertake to put an am end t b it Perhaps Per if I live to return ret rD I may how however ever ever have courage to war with them upon this thi occasion I |