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Scientific Intelligence.
pox , they never thought of having recourse to a voluntary' infection of this kind , to free themselves and families from the possibility of being infected with the variolous poison , which so often proves mortal even when given b y inoculation . These publications contain a great body of evidence , all tending to prove that persons who have undergone the specific fever and local disease occasioned by the cow . pox , communicated either by accident to the hands when milking
them , or by inoculation ( for this has been already tried by the ingenious authors ) , are thereby rendered unsusceptible of the small-pox ; and that matter from such patients may be employed with the like effects , no difference being observable in the effects of the matter generated successivel y in the first , second , third , fourth , or fifth human creature . Pits from the small-pox are a deformity that no one can certainly guard against even by inoculation . In the cow-pox no such consequences take place ; for , though accompanied with fever ,-the pustules are local , and the place may be chosen .
As the cow-pox poison acts upon the whole constitution in seven OB ei ght days after its admission , and the small-pox most frequently not till fifteen or more ; in cases where exposure to the small-pox infection is unavoidable , and the consequence of infection at the time 'dangerous ( as in pregnancy ) , inoculation with the former might , by its quicker action , produce that change in the system which would insure the least deadly of the two maladies . ¦ No sagacity is required to predict ,-says Dr . Pearson , that , should the
practice of inoculating for the cow-pox ever become very general amongst young persons ( which we hope will be-the case ) , the variolous infection must be extinguished ; ¦ and , of consequence , that loathsome and destructive disease , the small-pox , be known only by name . And this benefit will accrue without even the allay or introduction of a new disease ; it being plain , from the nature ofthe cow-pox poison , that ( the other being once rooted out ) it will be easy to avoid and prevent its dissemination—as there must be at least a real contact with it to cause infection .
METALLIC TRACTORS . IN a former Number we mentioned that the celebrated Italian physician Galvani was the inventor of these Tractors , and on that account the Frencli Chemists call it Galvanism . Dr . Perkins , of North America , has , however , revived the doctrine , which had laiel dormant for a long time , and he terms it Perkimsm . We now present our readers ' with additional experiments to those we have already given .
Professor Schumacher at Copenhagen made experiments with tractors oi Brass , and iron on ten patients in Frederick's hospital at Copenhagen . He tried also tractors of ebony and ivory , which are said to have cured a pain in the knee ; with others of silver and zinc ; and some of copper and lead . By the two last , pains in the knee , arm , and face , are saiel to have been mitigated . According to M . Klinberg ' s experiments , this remedy was , pf . use in malum ischiatiatm ; and according to those of M . Stessens , in malum iscbiaticitmMi
megrim . According to M . Bang , the pains in some cases were increased and in others allayed . According to M . Blech , the tractors were of use at hemichrania and gouty pains in the head- ; and , according to M . Hahn , W rheumatic pains in both shoulders . Professor Abiigaarel says , that mankind have hitherto paid too little attention to the influence which electricity has on the human body ; otherwise tlifi )' would know that the effects-produced on it by our beds is no matter of in ' difference . If the feather beds and hair mattresses , & c . are perfectly eity the person Who sleeps on them is in an insulated state ; but the contrary ' the case if they are moist . He three times removed a pain in the knee , ty
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Scientific Intelligence.
pox , they never thought of having recourse to a voluntary' infection of this kind , to free themselves and families from the possibility of being infected with the variolous poison , which so often proves mortal even when given b y inoculation . These publications contain a great body of evidence , all tending to prove that persons who have undergone the specific fever and local disease occasioned by the cow . pox , communicated either by accident to the hands when milking
them , or by inoculation ( for this has been already tried by the ingenious authors ) , are thereby rendered unsusceptible of the small-pox ; and that matter from such patients may be employed with the like effects , no difference being observable in the effects of the matter generated successivel y in the first , second , third , fourth , or fifth human creature . Pits from the small-pox are a deformity that no one can certainly guard against even by inoculation . In the cow-pox no such consequences take place ; for , though accompanied with fever ,-the pustules are local , and the place may be chosen .
As the cow-pox poison acts upon the whole constitution in seven OB ei ght days after its admission , and the small-pox most frequently not till fifteen or more ; in cases where exposure to the small-pox infection is unavoidable , and the consequence of infection at the time 'dangerous ( as in pregnancy ) , inoculation with the former might , by its quicker action , produce that change in the system which would insure the least deadly of the two maladies . ¦ No sagacity is required to predict ,-says Dr . Pearson , that , should the
practice of inoculating for the cow-pox ever become very general amongst young persons ( which we hope will be-the case ) , the variolous infection must be extinguished ; ¦ and , of consequence , that loathsome and destructive disease , the small-pox , be known only by name . And this benefit will accrue without even the allay or introduction of a new disease ; it being plain , from the nature ofthe cow-pox poison , that ( the other being once rooted out ) it will be easy to avoid and prevent its dissemination—as there must be at least a real contact with it to cause infection .
METALLIC TRACTORS . IN a former Number we mentioned that the celebrated Italian physician Galvani was the inventor of these Tractors , and on that account the Frencli Chemists call it Galvanism . Dr . Perkins , of North America , has , however , revived the doctrine , which had laiel dormant for a long time , and he terms it Perkimsm . We now present our readers ' with additional experiments to those we have already given .
Professor Schumacher at Copenhagen made experiments with tractors oi Brass , and iron on ten patients in Frederick's hospital at Copenhagen . He tried also tractors of ebony and ivory , which are said to have cured a pain in the knee ; with others of silver and zinc ; and some of copper and lead . By the two last , pains in the knee , arm , and face , are saiel to have been mitigated . According to M . Klinberg ' s experiments , this remedy was , pf . use in malum ischiatiatm ; and according to those of M . Stessens , in malum iscbiaticitmMi
megrim . According to M . Bang , the pains in some cases were increased and in others allayed . According to M . Blech , the tractors were of use at hemichrania and gouty pains in the head- ; and , according to M . Hahn , W rheumatic pains in both shoulders . Professor Abiigaarel says , that mankind have hitherto paid too little attention to the influence which electricity has on the human body ; otherwise tlifi )' would know that the effects-produced on it by our beds is no matter of in ' difference . If the feather beds and hair mattresses , & c . are perfectly eity the person Who sleeps on them is in an insulated state ; but the contrary ' the case if they are moist . He three times removed a pain in the knee , ty