II. Those who survive II. It sometimes II. It occasions no the ravages of that occasions the same other disease. On the dreadful distemper, maladies as the contrary, it has often often survive only to natural Smallpox. been known to improve be the victims of other health, and to remedy maladies, or to drag those diseases under out a miserable which the patient existence worse than before laboured. death.
III. This cruel and III. It frequently III. It leaves behind lamentable disorder leaves behind it the no blemish, but _a leaves behind it pits, same blemishes and Blessing_--one of scars, and other deformities as the the greatest ever blemishes and bodily natural Smallpox, bestowed on man--_a deformities which which are the more perfect security embitter life. deplorable as they against the future are brought on by a infection of the voluntary act. Smallpox_.
From this faithful statement of the advantages attending VACCINE INOCULATION, it must appear evident to every unprejudiced person, that it is the duty as well as the interest of every parent, of every individual, and of every nation, to adopt the practice, and to hasten
It was thus that Vaccination was introduced to the English people, not by men accounted quacks, but by leaders of the medical profession; and whatever the illusions and mischiefs of the new practice, we must allow it the credit of discouraging and ultimately superseding the grosser practice of inoculation with smallpox. As for the various items in the bill, we have had, and shall have them before us, and I would only now recall attention to the initial statement that “Smallpox destroys a tenth part of mankind.” The summary answer to the statement is that the number of mankind was unknown, likewise their diseases, and the proportion in which they were fatal. It was a repetition of Dr. Lettsom’s unwarrantable extension of a bad year of London smallpox to the whole earth. Even in an occasional year when upwards of 3000 died in London of smallpox, the total average mortality was not seriously affected thereby. The deaths, as we have observed, were merely taken out in smallpox instead of in some other form of fever. That nothing can permanently reduce the death-rate of any community save improved sanitary conditions and personal habits was unrevealed in 1802.