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VOLUME VIII: '
A THE LEHIGH REGISTER
I .6,pit4lished ,in "tie Borough of Allentown, Lehigh
, tount .y, Ta„ every Vedneaday, by
_.A. L. 11141 E,
A $l2O per annum, payahle in advance, and
$2 00 if not paid until the end of the year., No
paw discontinued, until all arrearages are paid
except a the option of the proprietor.,
Ur Office in Hamilton Street, one door East of
the German Reformed church, nearly opposite
the i•rriedensbote" Office. •
cunsi)lvania tEloqing 1.3 all.
Breinlg, Neligh and Brelnig,
South East corner of Ilarnill in and Sct:enth
Sired, 4!lenlown
Inform their friends and the public in gen
eral, that they have entered into Partner
s:,hip in the
Illlqrchant Tailoring Busincss,
e ls lately followed ty Neligh
Breinig, and intend to
mtinue the same more ex
mSive than ever. They
ierefore adopt this measure
inform their old customers,
icl..hundreds anew tines"
tat they will at their new
itablishment, present the
Fashinoalge Goods,
ever brought to this place, and having pur
chased in Philadelphia and New Yolk .
For Cash,
it enables- theta to sell Ina er than any
'other establishment of the kind in Allentown.
They have selected their Goods with an eye
to durability and fancy, arid have none but
the latest sty-les in the market. Their stock
ol Goods among other articles, consist ol
Cloths of all colors and prices, Casiimers,.
of French and American manufacturers ;
Vestings, Silk Velvets, Satins, Silks, Wore
terd and other descriptions,figured and plain,
Shirts and Shirt-collars, Stocks, Cravats,
Handkerchiefs, Hose, Suspenders, &c., be
kides ',Hilly other articles coining in their
fine of business, and all will - hesold at the
lowest prices. Their stock of
Readymade Clbthog,
comprises every thing in the clothing, line,
from an'civer-coat down to an under-shirt,
made up after thu latest and most fashiona
ble styles. There stock being so .extensive,
that'none will leave it, unless fitted from the
Pbottotu to the top"
Customer Work,
will he done up as usual, and for their work
they are willing to be held responsible, two
of firin,Guing practical workmen in the
"art of cutting," and all the work is made up
cinder their own supervision;
would also par}ioularly inform
country Merchants, that they are Mini pre
pared to sell at Wholesale and Retail, hav
ing the , largest Stock of Sprin. b and Summer
Clothing on hand ever offered in Allentown,
and *ill be sold at reduced prices.
'Thankful for past favorg they trust that
attention to business, "small profits and
ljuick sales" will be the means of bringing
new - customers to their establishment.
J. ISAAC BIMINI°,
JOIIN
JOIIN L. 13nciNia.
Allentown; Sept. 7 1-13 m
Coachmakthg Establishment
. , L _....
- , In Allentown:
. lat'llllllll V aat A 3111 19
Respectfully announces to his friends and
the public in general, that he-.continues on
on extensive scale, the
t ' Coachmaking - Basness,.
•,
ii) alt itiiinirious branches at . A old stand in
West Hainiiton Street, No. 52, directly op
ppsiielflaginbuch's Hotel, where he is al
ways prepared to nisnufactu re to order at the
' shortest notice, and also keep on hand,
' . Fashinablerehicics
,:::..-. . such as Barauches, Rockawaya
ots:ryaa.a, fork Wagons, t Sullceya, 4.c. 4.c.
%Once, for beauty, and durt‘bility cannot be
syyp tuked, by any Coact:maker in the State
o ,plperherg, while his terms are as reason.
a 1! 3 r? those of Any; Cherestablishment.-- ,
1
A ,480i - tione , bat
,the beat materials, and
emplo,ye, „none' but 'the beet of workmen—
consrquentlY, lie intends That the vehicles
niiiiinfaetured at his estiblishment "shall
take 'the shine" - of 'all' ailiers Manufactured
in'Abiii pan of the noantrY. He Professes to
widoidtand his , business 'by eiperience, and
therefore assures the public:that he is ens-
Wed mittender ltatiSfattiOn tolls eustotnere.
Call and judge 'foorseivee.
131/Wooden *Or 'iron ttilettbes made to or
ddY dnd Repairing of all kinds done at the
- aiiortest.notice‘and: ortthe rook' reasonable
a rrn co.,,:;,J , -, e —.., , •: , I ; ~ v; . - ,, -r..
Old-vebioles• taken intscitartge for new
ones . arit good - bargain: ~ ••• ;,, . • ~,.,•;, .
' • - ROBERT KRAMER:
May 11.- IF—Oin
mum
A FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
Thou wily, mean, seductive' thing, • •
Thy subtle snares, thy baneful sling
Invade each barium breast;
We hate thy form, detest thy-art ) • ,
Yet safely lodge thee in our heart,
A secret welcome guest. •
We spurn thy name, yet love thy smile,
When thou invitest to go a mile, •
Unasked, we folliiw twain ;
We crave yet hate, repulse, embrace;,
Disdain yet seek thy smiling face ;
Refuse, yet entertain.
When thou bast tried each other form,
And we resist the nectered storm ;
Vain that we're not vain,
We smile at indirect applause,
Extracting thence.the . tick'ling straws,
That flat'ry we disdain.
'Tis said each mau' l will have his price—
Some high, souse low, obscure or nice,
By which be can be bought.
'l'is quite as true that thou canst spread
A net of course or filter thread
By which each man is caught.
Tell me not that sin can claim
Kindled with the human tear,
From a source divine it came,
All uur sympathies to share;
Tears of luve,ul joy, of grief,
Give the burdened soul relief. •
As the pearly dew of morn,
Bathes the budding virgin flower—
Su with us, at life's first dawn,
Tears of innocence we,e ours,
Which to infant souls are given,
• From .he crystal fount of Heaven.
When temptations' snares betray,
And from innocence we fall—
When from virtues path we stray,
And fur aid Divine we call—
Tears of penitence are given,
For the mercy fount of Heaven.
As the parched land in turn,
Needs the cool refreshing shower,
So when earth passions burn,
The soul i&needs the tearful hour.;
And nfilis.tions tears are given,
From the cooling fount of Heaven.
Go where friends their vigils keep,
O'er their loves when beauty's tied—
Go where hearts must break or weep,
O'er the dying and the dead—
There at tears are given,
From the fount tit love in Heaven.
Say not then that sin and shame,
Can beget the human tear;
From its source gi vin e it came,
All our sympathies to share,
Tears' of love, of joy, of grief,
Give the burdened soul relief.
Illioccllancous ,t3elcitions.
I was a lonely sort of a bachelor, and had
never yet known what young men style the
passion. Of passion 1 had enough as my
old mate' yonder can Leif you. 1 broke his
head twice, and his arm once, in Elks of it ;
but he has always seemed to love the Lathe
better, and clings to ins now very much as
`two pieces of the same chip .cling together
when at sea. We are the sole survivers of
a thousand wrecks, and of the company
that Railed with us two years ago, no other
one is left afloat.
I had been a sailor from my boyhood and
when I was twenty five, I may solely say no
Man was more fit to command a vessel among
the mariners of England. And at this time
my uncle died and left me a fortune. 1 had
never sewn him and hardly knew of his ex
istence; but I had now speaking evidence
of the fact that he had existed and equally
good proof that he existed no longer. •
I was very young and strong in limb, and
I think, stout in heart, and r was possessed
of the rental °Ammo thousands per annum.
What bar was there to my enjoyment of the
goods of life? No bar, indeed, but I felt sore- t
ly the lack of the • means of enjoyment. I
was a sailor in every sense. My educatkin
was tolerable, end I had some bucks, but my
tastes were nautical, and I pined on shore.
You. will easily understand, then, why
built a yact, and spent much of my lilac on
her. She was a fine craft, suited to my taste
in every respect, and I remember with a
sigh, now, the happy days which, j;: have
spent . ip the iToant. , kneed to read con
siderable in my &thin, and, occasionally, in
deed'Weekly. invited parties of gentlemen to
Grilled with me. put. the foot of a lady had
.never keea, set upon the deck of my boat,
and I began to feel an old bachelor'S pride in
the fact. Yet, I confess to you a secret 104 7
ing for . borne kind of;affection differe,ot from'
any I had heretofore known, siid a reileqe.,
aces w h e n rne n'toktrurbeaitiiful women
' •
in my presence:* •
tactical Ocpattment-,
Love of Praise
TEARS.
The Bride of the Wreck.
'~ ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., JUNE 28, 1854
.
One' summer evening I was at the old
hall in which my uncle'died, and w,as_entire
ly alone. Towards sunset I was surprised,
While looking, over my books, by the:en
trance of a gentleman hastily announced,
and giving indicationscf.no little excitement.
e.Your pardon, sir formy unceretimniods
entrance. my horses have rah awaywith.
my carriage, and dashed it to pieces near
.}our park gate. My father was badly in
jured, and my sister is. watching over him.
I have taken the liberty to ask permission
to hiing him into your residence.",
Of course, my consent was inSta'ntly giv
en, and my own carriage dispatched to the
park-gate. •
Mr. Sinclair was a gentletrian of fortune
residing about forty miles from me; and his
father, an invalid of filty years or more of
age, was en his way, in company with his
son to his son's house, there' to die and be
buried. They were strangers to me. but I
made them welcome to my house, as if it
were their own, and insisted .upon their us
ing it.
Miss Sinclair, was the first woman who
had crossed tia-y door stone since I had been
possessor of the hall. And well might she
have been loved by a better man thas. I.—
She was very small and 'very beautifitl—of
the size of. Venus, which all men worship
as the perfection •Of•Wcimtinly• beauty, but
having a soft blue eye, strangely shaded by
jet black brows, her face presented_the con
trast of purity of whiteness in the complex
ion, set ,of by raven hair hanging in clus
tering curls, unbound by comb or fillet, and
the whole face lit up with an expression of
gerale trust and complete confidence either
in all around her, or else in her own indom
nitable determination, For Mary Sinclair
had a mind of her own, and a far seeing
one, too. She was nineteen then.
Her father died in the house, and I atten
ded the solemn proceision that bore his re
mains over hill and valley to the old church
in which his ancestors were laid. Once af
ter that I visited the family, and then
avoided them. I cannot tell you what was
the cause of the aversion I had to entering
that house, or approaching the influence of
that matchless girl. I believe that I feared
the magic of her beauty, and was impressed
with my own unworthiness to love or be
loved by her. . I knew her associates were
of the noble, the educated, the refined, and
that I was none of these. What then could
I expect but misery, if I yielded to the
charms of that exquisite beauty, or graces",
which I knew were in her soul!
A year passed, and I was a very boy• in
my continued thoughts of her ; I persuaded
tnyself a thousand times iliat I did nut love her
and a thousand times determined to prove it
by entering her presence.—At length I
threw myself into tile vortex of London so
ciety. and was lost inthe whirlpool.
One evening at a crowded assembly, I was
standing near a window in a recess, talking
with lady, when I felt a strange thrill.
cannot describe it to you, but its effect was
_visible to my companion, t%ho instantly said,
"You are unwell, Mr. Stewart, are you nut?
Your face bedatne -suddenly flushed, and .
your hand trembled so as to she! e the cut
.
Lain."
It was inexplicable to myself ; but I was
startled at the announcement of Mr. and
Mils Sinclair. I turned, and sa' she was
entering on her brother's arm, more beautf
fut than ever. [low I escaped I did not
know, but I did so. . _
Thrice afterwards I was warned of her pre-
sence in the same mysterious way, till I be
lieved there was some mysterious link be
tween us ....kwo of unknown, but powerful
character. I have since learned to believe
in the co:nmunfeatiOn of spirit with spirit,
sometimes without material intervention.
I heard of her frequently as engaged to a
Mr. Waller, a man whom I knew well, ana
was ready to do honor as worthy of her love.
When at length I saw, as I supposed, very
satisfactory evidence of the rumor, 1 left .
London and met them no more. The name
rumor reached me in letters, and •yet I was
mad enough to dream of Mary Sinclair, un
til months after I awoke to the sense of what
a fool 1 had been: Convinced of this, .1
went on board my yacht about • midsummer
and for four whole weeks, never set my foot
onshore.
One sultry day, when pitch was frying
en the dock, in,the hot sun, we rolled heav
ily in the Bay of Biscay and I passed the af
lernoon under a sail on the larboard quarter
deck. Towards evening 1 fancied a storm
was brewing, and having made all ready for.
it smoked on the tafirail till midnight and
then .turned in. •Will you believe me, 1
felt that strange thrill through my veins,,is
I lay in my hammock, and, awoke with it,
fifteen minutes before the watch on deck cal
led suddenly to the man at the wheel, 4Port
—port your . helm! a sail on the lee bow!
steady rso !"
I was on the deck' in an instant, and saw
that a stiff breeie was
. blowiag and a small
schooner, shciwing Op had., crossed
our forefoot Within pistol aiwt, and was now
bearing up to tho nOll4-Wiit..llla sky -was
cloudy and daiir,,but 4reezewas very
steady, and 1 went below again,,and af
ter endeavoring vainly' to account for the
othotions . I had felt, I at length fell asleep.
a!=il
and the molting 'of ray vessel; as she flew
before the wind, gave just motion enough
to my hammock, to lull me into - a alum
bar. But I dreamed all nigh; of Mary,i3in
char: I 'dreamed of her;bnt it Wei in unplea
sant. divans: I 'saw tier itandineon the
deck of the Team, iiiid'as'l would advance
towards her, the forth of Waller would in
'terPoiel would' fancy.at timer!, that my
arms were nronini 'he* and hethirm was
resting against my side, and her , head-lay
on my shoulder ; and then, by the strange
mutations of dreamsi-it was not I, but Wal
ler, that was holding her, - and I was chain
a post, looking at them; and she would
i int, and again the kiss would be burn
rig my lips.—The 'morning found me
rss,
4j
Wide awake, reasoning myself out of my
'nries> By noon I, had enough , to do,—
' he oc n was roused. .A tempest was
ton t ' sea, and the "Foam" went be
t eit.
, 1 [
' it came down gloomily. The very
blackness of darkness was on the water as
we flew before the terrible blast. "I was on
deck, lashed to the wheel bywhichl stood,
with a knife within( reach to cut the lashing
if necessary. We had but a rag of sail on
her, and yet she moved more like a bird than
a boat, from wave to wave. Again and
again a blue wave went over us, but shecame
up like a duck, shook off the water and
dashed on. Now she staggered, as a blow
was on her brow, tharmight have staved a
man-of-war. but she kept gallantly on ; and
now she rolled heavily and slowly, but nev
er abated the swift flight towards slitire.—
it was midnight when the wind was high
est. The howling of the cordage was de
monicah Now a scream, now a shriek, now
a wail, and a laugh of mocking madness.
On, on we flew.
I looked up, and turned quite around the
horizon, but could see no sky, no sea, no
cloud—all was blackness, I felt again that
strange thrill, and at that instant fancied a
blackness ahead.; and the next with a crash
and a-plunge, the "Foam" was gonel—
Down went my gallant Vont, and with her,
another vesasf,unseen,in the black night.—
The wheel to which I had been lashed had
broken loose, and gone over with me before
she sank. It was heavy and I cut it away,
and it went down in the deep sea above my
boat. And seeing a Oar, I seized itoncta
thrill of agony shot through me as I recog
nized the delicate fingers of a woman. I
drew her to md and lashed her to the spar
by my side, and so, in the black night, we
two floated away over the stormy ocean.
My companion was senseless—for all 1
_knew dead. A thousand emotions passed
through my mind in the next five minutes.
Who was toy companion on the slight spar?
Who was the vessel 1 had sunk?—Was I
with the body of only a human . being or Was
there a spark of life left ? and how could f
fan it to a flume? Would it not be better to
let her sink, than float off with me, thus alone
to starve or die of thirst and agony. ,
I chafed her hands, her forehead, her
shoulders: la the 'darkness I could not see
a feature of her lace, nor tell if she were old
oryouogr-xscareely white or black. The si
lence on the sea was fearful. So long as. I
had been on the deck of my boat, tke wind
whistling through the ropes and around the
spars, had made a continual sound; but now
I heitid nothing but the occasional sparkling
of the spray, the dash of a loom cap, or the
heavy sound of the wind pressing ppon my
ears. • _
At length she moved her hand feebly in
mine. How my heart leaped at that slight
evidence that 1 was not alone on the 'wild
ocean. I redoubled my exertions.—l passed
one of her arms around my neck to keep it
out of water, while 1 chafed the other with
both of 'mine. 1 felt the clasp of that arm
tighten, I bowed my head towards hers.—
She drew her soft cheek close to mine.—
I let it rest there—it might warm her's and
so help to give her life. Then she nestled
close to my bosom and whispeted, 'thatik
you.—Why did my brain.so wildly throb in
my head at that whispering sentence ? She
knew not whether she was sober. Her mind
was wandering. At. that instant the end of
the spar'stiuck some. heavy object, and we
were dashed by a huge wave over it, and to
my joy vie left upon a floating decke. I
cut the lashing 'from the spar, and fasteeed
my companien and myself to the neWitift or
wreck, I knew not which, and all that time
that arm was round my neck, and ried . aaif
in death. . •
Now came the low,• wild wail, that Pre
cedes the breaking uref the storm. The
air seemed filled with viewless spirits,
mournful singing and sighing. I never
thought of her as anything else than a hu
man being. It was, that dear likeness of
life that endeared her tome. wound.rrik
arms around her and drew, her close to my
heart; and bowed. my head over her, and • in,
the wildness of the moment 1 pressed 'my
lips to ters; in a 'long, passionate kiss of
intense love and agony.' She geve it batch,
murtnuringsome name oferidearrnent,wound
both nrms'areund• my risclt,.and 'laying her
head on. my ahoulder, with , her.• forehead"
premed to my cheek, fell into calm.slum.
ber. That kiss burns on my lips at this ,
hour. Half a century of the cold kisses of
the world Lave not sufftaed . to chill its influ-
ence. It thrills me now as then!' - It' Was
madness with idle worship•of the form God
gave in the image of himself which in that
hour I a'dored as even God! I' eel the un
earthly joy again to-day, as . I remember the
clasp of those unknown. arms, and the pres
sure. of that forehead. I knew not, I cared
not, if .aho was old and haggard, or young
and faii.
" I only knew and rejoiced with joy untokl
that she was human, mortal, of my own kin,
by the great Father of our race. •
It was a night of thought and emotion s
and phantonis that never can be described.
Morning dawned gravely!: the first faint
gleam of light showed me a driving cloud
tabove my head—it was welcomed with a
shudder. I kited. light. I wanted to float
over that heavenly ocean, with that form
clinging to me, and my aims around it, and
my lips ever and anon pressed to the pas
sionless lips of the heavy sleeper. I asked
for no light. It was an intruder on my do
main and would drive her frdm my embrace.
I was mad. '
But as I saw the face of Tay companion
gradually revealed in the dawning light, as
my eyes began to - make out the features,
and at length the terrible truth come slowly
burning into my brain,and I mourned aloud
In my agony. .Grod of heaven, she is dead ?'
And it' was Mary Sinclair. But she was
not dead:
We floated all day long on the sea, ond
at midnight of the next night I hailed a ship
and they took us - ofT. Every man from the
' , Foam" .t►nd the other vessel was saved
with one exception. The other vessel, was
the Fairy. a schooner yacht, -belonging to a
friend of Miss Sinclair with whom she and
her brother, and a party of ladies and gen
tlemen, had started but three days previous
for a week's cruise. I need not tell you I
explained that stmnge thrill as the schoon
er crossed our bow the night before the col.
lision. and which felt again at the moment
of the crash, nor what interpretation I give
to the wild tumult of emotions all that long
dreary night.
I married Mary Sinclair. and her
thirty years afterwards; and I sometimes
bavo thu 04 Mo evidence of her presence
now, that I used ,to have when 'tic lived on
he same earth with me.
History of the Small Pox.
It is a subject of dispute whether this dis
ease was known to the ancients, or is of
modern date. Thucydides, in his account
of the plague of Athens, is said to have giv
en an accurate description of the small pox;
but the first author on the subject is , Rheze
an Ambiariv.who confounded it with mea
sles between which and the small poi no
distinction was made until the time of Syden.
ham. It was quite unknown to Europe un
til am begining of the eight century. No,
mention of such a Malady was made by the
Greek and Roman authors of antiquity ; and
whatever may have been the deficiencies of
the ancient physician.s.they were capital ob
servers and describers. of diseases and it is
impossible that a &artier so well marked
should have escaped their notice, or been
obscurely portrayed in their, . -
On the other habil. Mr. Moore, in his
history of small. pox, has shown that it pre
vailed to a great extent r in China and Hin
dostan, more than 1,000 years before_ the.
time of our Saviour. That it did . . not soon
,er extend westward into Persia, and thence
into Greece, may be attributed to tbe boreal!
which the disease every where inspired, and
the attempts which were couseqbently r*lde,
to check its pilgrim, by prohibiting all com
munication with the sick; and partly, dim
to the isolated situation of the regions through
which the infection was diffused, seperated
as they were from the rest of the world by
vast deserts and by the ocean.
It is said to have, broken out in Arabia
during the sixth century, in the year that
Mohammed was born.. It wee widely pro
pagated by his wars' and it is generally be-
Sieved to have entered Europe at the time
of the overthrow of the Gothic monarchy in
Spain, by the Moors; when it began to
spread with great rapidity.
There was no. small pox in the New
World before the discovery Of Columbus.-
1492; but in 1517 it was imported into St.
Domingo. In 1520, in one of the Spaniab
expeditions" from Cuba'to Mexico; a negro,
infeitedwjth the disorder was landed Bathe
Mexielin coast and from him it spread with
such rapidity and desolation, that within a
very short time upwards of three millions ;
of people were destroyed' in that kingdom
aloqe •
It was introduced into Iceland in 1707,
when 10.000 persons. more than a fourth
part of the population. were collie& Off'Vy .
its ravages. It reached' Greenland in tfa.
and spread with buck fatality: ea dearly to
depopulate that country'.
One of, the 'Meabs' Adopted to' arrest the
'progress of We terrible• add fatal malady
was inoculation with small Pox ' '
Which it was rendered much inilder than,
'whedOontilittetlifthis natural sear.Tbe
ehiaelie•blalar that for Mani Centuries they
bad the pdarer'oflarietainohe violence ot .
We died/derby placing scene of the scale*
in. the :nostrils ; and fora long tjato the Br.ah
mina, in India' were in the batik of ingraft-
M)MBEK _3
ing the virus into healthy' persons to :Mkt'.
gate the disense. '' '"
In 1713, Dr. Simoni, an Oxford graduate
who had settled at Constantinople, wrote to
Dr. Worilen, in London, testifying to Ito
success ; and the account was published'in
the 'Transactions of the Royal S'Oclety,in
the following year. Mr. Kennedy. an
English surgeon, who had traveled in Tut
key, also attested to its success in his essay
on External Remedies. These statements,
however, were neglected, and we owe the ,
actual introduction of inocultation "`to the
admirable good sense of Lady Wortley Mon
tague, the wife of the English Ambassador
at the Ottoman Porte.
In 1718 she wrote to her ?riends in Eng
land ; that the small pox, generally so falai;
was rendered comparatively harnilesss by
inoculation. The first person inoculated'
with small pox in England, was her daegh-•
ter, then a chid of DLlCeith, afterwardssome
condemed felons, who were pardoned on
condition of submitting to the operation end'
nt length some of the royal family; but the
practice was not thoroughly established un-'
til the middle , of the eighteenth century.—
Its efficacy in mitigating the severity of the
disease and saving life was signally great.
The mortality in natural email pox was one
in five but not ono thousand died of the iq.
grafted disease.
But a better expedient has been discovered
in the practice of vaccination, which hark
rendered the old sytem Of inoculation with
small pox not only unnecessary '
.but posi
tively unjustifiable. For this discovery,
which lies been of more benefit in alleviet
ting human misery than almost any other,.
the world is indebted to Edward Jenner.—
Ile was born in Englatid, in 1740, at Berk.
ly in Gloucestershire, and , in early lifi,wes
apprenticed to Mr. Ludlow, a surgeon at. -
Sunbury. At the conclusion of his appren- '
ticeship he went to London, and became a
pupil of the celebrated John Hunter.. In,
1772 he returned to his native village, and
practic. , cl as a surgeon till 1773, when ho
determined to confine himself to medicine,.
and obtained the degree of M. D. at St. An:
drew's University. While at 'Sunbury ho
was surprised one day bY heating a count
t ry-urnman any she could not take the small
pox because she had the cotv - pure- ' `•,teL on
inquiry he found that it was a popular no
in that district, that milkers who had,
been infected with a pectiliateruption whick
sometimes occurred in the uidder of the cow,
were
of
secured against the infec
tion of small pox. On inquiry of the medi-
cal men of that district; they stati4 it was
not a perfect protection, and 'at that time it
was generally considered as a -Popular,isr
ror. Jenner frequently wrote to John anti
ter, and other distinguished physicittne. bin .
. they either ridiculed Or ' disregarded,. it:...!..
Notwithstanding the iiffevor With which his
1
communications were received, he still coa
tented his investigations, and found while in
practice at Berkly, that there 'were some
persons to whom if Wits iinpossible to give •
small Sox by inoculation, and that aßthese
had been ;kneeled with' cow pox; but there
wore others also who had cotv,poi; and yet
received small pox. • This after Ento„lahor.-•
led him to the discovery. that the cow was
subject to a variety of diseases, of which
one only could guhrd against small pox, and
this, which he called the tree cow pox, could
be effectually / communicated 'to milkers-at '
only one period of its course. Following
out these discoveries, Dr. Ironer pet him- .
self m trace, if possible, the origin of the die
ease of the cow. First he found that many .
of the milicern also had charge of farm hor.
ses, and that the teats of the - cow, generally,.
.begaa in exhibit the eruption , at , the time of '
the, year when a complaint Jailed the,
"grease,", chiefly prevailed among horses.:,
and henco he concluded thai the malady ; , ;
was conveyed to the cows by the hands of
the men Who had been dressing the heels of • -
the 'hofses' ,effected by the "gretufe, 'Bilbao. '',
quent inquiries;, teowever, have shoyAfn thaV•
this conclusion is hat strictly eoriec44 'lt''
was not until 17ti11 that the idea Best ocoutj't
red to him that it might be:possible:to prov't •
pagate cow pox, first from .ther.eow to the
human body; and then •from ; _one. person'to. ,
another; but-in consequence of ihe,opp.osie'
tion of ,Hunter, Clines, and' others. ao deci-,
sive experiment was medr,anti,1 ; 1794....p. .
the 14th of May, which is still coMmemor...
ated by an annua(festiv_i4;'n boy aged eight;
years was vaccinated • witb inaner taken::
from the hande Ole milkman i•he passed •
through the diseina le a satisfactory man-.
net, and was inocultited' ivith"thitall pox' 'on*.
on the first of July following without effect.'
Jenner then commenced in etterisive orgies '
of experiments.' and in 17'91 published 'his i
memoir, called "An Inquiryinte the enusee• '
and Effects of Variola Vaccina. o :" ft eititp:
'ed the greatest amerce', for the evidence ,
seemed . conclusive.
Notwithstandiart this ); .ppptipe. met
with much ci - ppositapi, and sucteAtCroi:mpkw,
than' a year seemertiaeoitali: tip
wards oFieventyoysiciaitain r i ontiorisigg.
ed edeclaration Of•iheirintira danficliihea
its efflisey: -Varimitiattemptit *ere made - ,
depriveto Jenaer:of th meritror his•ditieov:)•
ery,•but he fipaily-itiumphedo over_ nil hi.
enemies, and honors from every. prat:m.o..
the kingdom were bestowed upon Itintw-