Comparison of the Cow-Fock with the Synall-Pox. es? 



template the human form as ilie master-piece ot" creative 

 power, and acknowledge that R-niale cliarnis are destintti 

 bv the Almighty as the zest of otherwise a vapid exist- 

 ence, must grant ev'ery praise to the Jenneriavi discovery, 

 which is never known to disfigure (as does oiten the natural 

 and inoculated sniall-pox) '' tb»c human face divine." — Al- 

 though external appearances are not of themselves solely to 

 be desired; I ask, where is the parent who docs not wish 

 for her dausrhters to possess a pure unblemished heart in aii 

 elegant and pleasing person? — For often, at the very first 

 glance, the soul takes fire, and sooy after joins in holy bands 

 of wedlock the two sexes destined by Pbovidkkci; to make 

 each other happy. But, when the features are all chunsrcsi, 

 ■the nose drawn inward, a speck perhaps ui both eves, and 

 horrid seams pervade the pallid cheek — the mind of sensibi- 

 lity revolts at the ruins of fair nature, and marriaee is pre- 

 vented, unless for the sake of sordid peli ! — I shall here beg 

 leave to make a quotation from Dr. Beddoes's ^' Hygeia^." 

 " What impression," says this sagacious writer, *' do not 

 a sallow unwholesome complexion, seajus from the small- 

 pox, scrophulous scars, and those marks which debauchery 

 is apt to stamp upon the face, make upon the spectator? Is 

 he not in general disposed to turn awav in disgust from 

 these appearances? or, if politeness forbid him to give way 

 to his feelings, do thev not rise to a greater height for being 

 suppressed ? And in what manner does the mind of those 

 who perceive themselves to be objects of aversion react? — 

 Instead of going for an answer to the theory, which ex- 

 plains how our habits are formed, I shall bring one of the 

 most sagacious of ^elf-observers to speak for himself. The. 

 late professor, J. George Buseh, whose memory the city of 

 Hamburgh is at this moment employed in honouring;, tells of 

 his having had the small-pox at nine years old: and, thoutrh 

 they were attended with no imminent danger, they left him 

 Oadly marked. ' I was afterwards informed,' savs this 

 philosopher, ' that previouslv to this affliction I had a 

 comely appearance. For myself, I had never attended to 

 the point. But one thing I know well. After this time, I 

 perceived that those who visited my parents universally 

 withheld from me that kindness of attention, which with 

 a child is the first motive to render himself agreeable, thou<^h 



* " fiyg<'^<y '''' A Series of Essays on lh<- Mians of arjoit/irg Ijnliitual Si k- 

 inff, u,)d fir'-mamre Mortality, on a Plan ciiiiirly fopiU.ir, ^>' Thomas 

 J,c<4tioes, M. D." A uoik admirably contcivcd, uiid lik'.Jy to be pro- 

 'liictive of rhe greatest btncfic to tlic liuma:i laic. 



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