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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ... among loose masses of ice, with the sea in a state of quiescence, would have been quite enough to have proved the value of gutta-percha boats; but when, as in the present case, those masses were all in restless agitation, with a sea rolling in upon an opposing current, it might have been well excused--and without deteriorating from the previously attested goodness of the article--if it had not been able to have resisted the severe shocks it received Sliding through and over the ice--sometimes lifted completely out of the water by the sudden contact of a restless floe, and at others thrown sideways upon an adjoining craggy piece--I think it would have been next to impossible for any other kind of boat to have been otherwise than crushed or stoved in on the instant." It was in commemoration of these facts, that the hardy explorers gave the name of "Gutta-Percha Inlet" to the chief scene of the gallant little boat's adventures. JENNER, AND THE DISCOVERY OP VACCINATION. More than fifty years before Jenner commenced the inquiries which led to his great discovery, an immense benefit had been conferred on mankind by the introduction into England of the system of inoculation, or ingrafting, as it was then called, which consisted in communicating the small-pox itself to the patient almost in the same way as the cow-pox is communicated under Jenner's system. It is difficult now to imagine the ravages committed by this fearful disease before these great discoveries. In Russia alone the small-pox is said to have swept away two millions of lives in a single year. In the family of an English nobleman, Lord Petre, during the last century, eighteen individuals were found to have died of this complaint during twenty-seven years. So fatal was the disease, tha...
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