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should be considered effectual, it is desirable that it should be as extensively known as possible.[1]
Commander Crozier and I returned the visit of Captain Aulicko and prevailed on him and two of his officers to spend the following day on board the Erebus, and in examining the instruments at the observatories, which he was very desirous to see. It was on this occasion, when hearing from him, that he had only recently parted from the squadron under the command of Lieutenant Wilkes, and was likely in a short time to meet that officer again, being also a personal friend of his, I considered it to be the most delicate mode of acquainting Lieutenant Wilkes with the circumstance of our having passed over a large space in clear water, where he had placed mountainous land on the chart he sent me. As I have given a full account of this transaction in the first volume of my narrative, I need not make any further allusion to it here, except to express my regret, that,
- ↑ I have lately been referred by a medical friend to a paper in the Transactions of the Provincial, Medical, and Surgical Association, vol. x. p. 209., by Robert Ceeley, Esq., surgeon to the Buckinghamshire Infirmary, from which it appears he has clearly proved, by numerous experiments, that vaccine matter may be obtained by inoculating the cow with the small-pox; and that the matter so obtained effectually protects those who have been vaccinated with it from the small-pox,—a discovery of very great importance, to which the attention of medical men in general, and of naval surgeons in particular, should be directed, as affording a ready and effectual preventive from the attacks of that dreadful malady.
