^2S Additional Notes. 



sopliy of mind will not stand the test of sober inquiry. This, 

 however, is not the place to enter into a discussion of these 

 errors. 



. Small-pox. p. 283. 



It has been made a question whether the inoculation of 

 the small-pox ought to be considered as a blessing or an evil 

 to society. Some have supposed that its effect has been to keep 

 the disease more steadily alive, and more extensively diffused; 

 4nd thus, on the v.'hole, that it has produced an injury rather 

 than a benefit. Professor Waterhouse, of Massachusetts, 

 vin a late publication, recommending the substitution of the 

 Cow-pox, makes the following statement: — " No less than 

 forty millions of people die of ihe small-pox eyery century. 

 The Europeans have carried the small-pox over the globe. 

 The Danes carried it to Greenland, and the Spaniards to South- 

 America, where one hundred thousand perished with it in 

 the single province of Quito. V/hen the annual number of 

 births in London was sixteen thousand two hundred and 

 ninety-one, the number who died with the small-pox was 

 two thousand five hundred and fifty-four, and still greater in 

 some other large cities of Europe. A greater number have 

 died of the smail-pox since the introduction of its inoculation 

 than before it, that practice being the means of keeping it 

 always in large cities." 



Dr. Douglass, p. 2S6. 



Dr. William Douglass, who acted so violent and con- 

 spicuous a part in Boston, against the practice of inoculating 

 for the small-pox, was the author of the work entitled, 7l 

 Smnmary of the British Settkmcnts in America, two vols. 

 8vo. London. 1755. 



Materia Medica. p. 308. 



In speaking of the Apparatus Mcdicamimmi of Professor 

 Murray, as " the most extensive, learned, and complete 

 work" on the Materia Medica extant, the meaning is, that 

 this is its character so far as it goes. The learned author 



