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lofs of charagter, is a truth one would ra- 
ther with him to take upon truft. 
There is no occafion to inculcate by 
prejudices thofe truths which it is of no 
importance for us to know till our powers 
are able to inveftigate them. Thus the 
metaphyfical queftions of {pace and time, 
neceffity and free-will, and a thoufand 
others, may fafely be left for that age 
which delights in fuch difeuffions. They 
have no connection with conduct, and 
none have any bufinefs with them at all 
but thofe who are able by fuch ftudies to 
exercife and fharpen their mental powers : 
but it is not fo with thefe truths on which 
our well-being depends ; thefe muft be 
taught to all, not only before they can 
ven{on upon them, but independenily of 
the confideration whether they will ever 
be able to reafon upon them as long as 
they live.—What has hitherto been faid 
relates only to inftilling prejudices into 
others; how far a man is to allow them 
in himfelf, or, as a celebrated writer ex- 
prefles it, to cheri/h them, is a different 
gueftion, on which perhaps I may fome 
time offer my thoughts. In the mean 
time I cannot help concluding, that to re- 
ject the influence of prejudice in educa- 
tion, is itfelf one of the moft unreafonable 
of prejudices. 
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To the Editor of the: Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ERMIT me, through the medium of 
your Monthly Magazine, to requett 
an an{wer to the following queries. 
Has that much dreaded infeét, the ear- 
wig, the power, as is generally {uppoted, 
or has it a natural tendency, to perfo- 
rate the human ear? 
Or, whether the wax, fupplied by na- 
ture in that organ, is not an obftruction 
of the paffage? 
Are the confequences in cafe of the ear- 
wig’s entering tatal?—By what imeans 
may it be extracted or enticed cut? 
‘An anfwer to each of the above queries 
will be thankfully received by, | Sir, 
Nour's, &c. A. B,C. 
<a 
“For the Monthly Magazine. 
Extract from a Letter of Mr-J. TurNER 
to Dr. Pzarson, on the Pradiice of the 
VaccineINocuLaTION among Couniry 
Peopl € aad P CQfGHIS» 
_, Dear Sir, 
Tt AM informed by our dairy people that 
i 
the Cow-Pox is epixbeaiic, chittly in 
the {pring, among cows about. April 
On the Cow Pox: 
[ March 8, 
or May, and that the fpurious forts 
prevail in common at almoft every other 
time; and, as the fpring is now ad- 
vancing, I fhall have it in my power to 
afift you. Believe me, Sir, that the Cow- 
Pox mania is as great in the country as in 
the metropolis. Perhaps you would like 
to know how we carry on the Vaccine Ino- 
culation. Almoftevery cobler, fhepherd, 
and cow-boy are confummate and expe- 
rienced adepts in this new fpecific art. 
I will, with your leave, make a few 
remarks, to fubftantiate what I mean 
to advance. At Steeple Clayton, a 
village five miles from Winflow, great 
numbers have been inoculated for the 
Vaccine difeafe, by the moft illiterate of 
all beings in human fhape, the cow-boys 
and fhepherd . boys, without any prior or 
fubfequent medicine whatevere At Weft- 
bury, Shenley, Tattenhoe, and a number 
of villages round our neighbourhood, the 
fame. At Finmere, Mr. Holt, the cler- 
gyman, who is {poken of in the Medical 
and Philofophical Journal (a neighbour of 
ours, no more than nine miles off), does ad- 
minifter fome trifling medicine, fuch as 
falts, &c. People are inoculated and ino- 
culate themfelves indifcriminately, fuch as 
farmers, dairy-people, &c. with impunity, 
without any preparation, fubfequent puri- 
fication, cr making application to any me- 
dical perfon whatever. Yefterday I faw 
aman inoculate a family with a cobler’s 
aw] dipped in another's arm; others do it 
with a penknife ground like a lancet point, 
others with neeilles, &c. infeéted with the 
Vaccine matter. 
I am a great advocate for the Vaccine 
Inoculation, I acknowledge and believe it 
to bea great acquihtion and difcovery ; 
and confequently, ultimately a great 
blefing to the community at large, and 
do not doubt of its fuccefs. The well 
attefted taéts that you and others affert, 
prove it indubitable. But greatly do I 
Jament that fome delufion, or fome fecrét 
mylttericus means have not been put tx 
force, to preventits being inany other hands 
than medical men. The Small Pox Ino- 
culation is now rapidly declining, and 
piety in a few years may be koown no 
more 
I am forry to fay that fome of our rultics 
appear to underftand the Cow Pox better 
than many ef our country medical frater- 
nity. I may add, Farewel Thiftle Foreft— 
Farewel Primrofe Hill—Stanton ‘Houst 
&c. ¥ 
PT LES iS SU Me Re a Les oe 
* The. houfes alluded to are Small-Pox 
Inoculating Houfes of great repute. 
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