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Title: The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834
Subjects: Fashion Art, Decorative
Publisher: London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ...
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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m. He was supposed by his fatherto have had it from inoculation at anearly period of life, and had subsequent-ly been exposed to variolous infection onvarious occasions without receiving thecomplaint. This instance (and manyothers might be adduced), suffices toprove, that small-pox may occur twiceto the same individual. Small-pox, also,occasionally affects a person after havingbeen vaccinated. A recent instance,that of Lord Grosvenors son, has excitedgreat attention, and no little alarm. Thefact is indisputable, the young gentle-man was regularly vaccinated, and hasjust gwie through the small-pox in theconfluent form. This circumstance,however, though of great moment, can-not, in a rational mind, remove the con-viction, that vaccination possesses themost important advantages to individualsas well as to the public. Since the prac-tice of inoculation for small-pox was in-troduced, the disease has been productiveof much more fatality than before : theindividual inoculated may, indeed, be
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3Che ^Repository Of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashion, and Politics. Manufacturers, Factors, and Wholesale Dealers in Fancy Goods that comewithin the scope of this Plan, are requested to send Patterns of such newArticles as they come out, and if the requisites of Novelty, Fashion, andElegance are united, the quantity necessary for this Magazinewdl be ordered. R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, London. No. i REPOSITORY OF ARTS, SCIENCE,Kd PATTERNS OF BRITISH MANUPACTURE. 115 safe; but from one child a whole dis-trict may receive the infection. Thereverse of this with respect to vaccina-tion, is acknowledged to be the case.The instances of small-pox recurringafter vaccination arc not more numerous,it is supposed, than cases of small-poxoccurring twice. Why then are we tosuffer alarm? or to reject a practicefraught with good? We had, indeed,no reason to anticipate such a happy dis-covery ; but its benefits having now beenattested by millions, surely we ought toreprobate small-pox

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