174 on the small pox. Feb. 



INNOCULATION, IVITH THE NATURAL 

 SMALL POX COMPARED. 



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For the Editor of the Bee. 



EiNG no subscriber, and only an occasional reader 

 of the Bee, 1 trust to your known liberality of senti- 

 ment, for pardoning the liberty I take in craving a cor- 

 ner in that useful publication. Indeed I am convinced 

 you are ever ready to lay before the public such hints 

 as may tend, in any manner of v/ay, to promote the 

 happinefs of mankind. And where has society found 

 more real heart-felt advantages than from the disco- 

 very of innoculation for the small pox. But for that, 

 we have every reason to suppose many a parent would 

 have mourned the death of children who now live re- 

 spected in the world. What heart is so callous as not 

 to feel for the distrefs in which children are daily to be 

 seen, labouring under the dire effects of the natural 

 small pox .'' and who does not rejoice in knowing that 

 the danger attending this disorder, may, in a gi-eat 

 meafure, be removed by innoculation. If prejudices 

 among people, of a certain rank still exist, I deem it 

 the duty of those more enlightened, or whose situation 

 in life gives an influence over others to exert them- 

 selves in removing such prejudices. It is with real sa- 

 tisfaction I see the medical gentlemen of Edinburgh 

 nobly stand forth in diffusing so useful a discovery, 

 by offering to innoculate gratis the children of such 

 parents as will make application. I have too high an 

 opinion of the gentlemen of that profefsion to doubt 



