Excerpt from Letter From Doctor Edward Jenner, to William Dillwyn, Esq., On the Effects of Vaccination, in Preserving From the Small-Pox: To Which Are Added Sundry Documents Relating to Vaccination, Referred to and Accompanying the Letter The importance of the following Letter, lately received from London, has induced the Philadelphia Vaccine Society to publish it in its present form. The communication was made in answer to the enquiry of one of our fellow citizens, who was desirous of knowing Dr. Jenner's' opinion of his truly inte resting discovery, after it had stood the test of twenty years' experience. The friends of humanity will, no doubt, be highly gratified by this additional confirmation of the security to be obtained against the ravages of the small-pox, one of the most loathsome and desolating of all diseases.
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