The Sun.
London, England, 1813-08-27 00:00:00

TO THE EDLTOIt OF THE SUN.

ignorant anti designing
pe•;, .nic have in vaiti end'eavotire(l) through tile in-,
dolgetice of your iinpaitiil Paper, to make the
publii believe that -Vaccination has foifeit&l all
pretence to merit, because it has failed in some
notorious instarices, and produced a lov ertipcions
and glandulous evils which were never known
before: • , . .• • • •

lint, by-the last RepOrt of the Vaccine Board,.
we are now convinced these circumstances are
entirely to be attributed to the- want of knowledge
in the faeulty of. the metropolis, Where it first
origmateu, and was, for some time, supported at
ei vast expense ; since at Ceylon,- the Cape, and
the Continent,.they actually understand the true
mode,of Vaccination much better than the Dis-
coverer, his Deputy-Diredtor, and the whole
corps of brass-plated Practitioners ; and stfc
anxious are they to exterminate Small-post, that
just before they closed the packet at PaliCat they
bad rte-established the Small-pox Hospital, to re-
ceive those who might be taken with variolous
infection before or after they had been vac-.

Now, Sir, it must be sheer ignoranee, or some-
thing worse, to make any doubt of the truth of
an experiment, wh:vh till the world is so revnly
to acknowledge, before they can have time to
prove it.
Has not Buonsparte allowed the exportation
of the Eau Medicitiale in return far it? HAve
not the 'American Indians sent. ,a present of at
wang-hob belt ? Have not the Indian Nabobs
sent some of their jugglers to swallow the Indies
steel buckles, and equsliy surprise us with theli-
deceptions ? Has not a great Lady, at.a.de.jeutte,
presented t, ,e Discoverer with her watch and
seals : Has not her husband Made .hint an Ex.
traordmary Surgeon, though. he does not belong
to the College I Have not the College of Physi.
clans forfeited their Charter; by consulting :with
him as an unlicensed practitioner ?

In short, Sir, has not the Corrlox surmount-
ed all the laws of nature. broken down all thevry,
set aside the most' successfill and benevolent prac-
tice that physic ever knew, and fascinated ali un-
derstandings, carrying away plain common sense
from all ranks of society, except from the great
MUSS of the poor in the united kingdoms ?
But the Vox Populi and Common Sense have
nothing iing like
tue Ea vs
totlositt Indies,htl experiment, fur in comi-
twhere they are consi-
dered
.us nothing, we find evel thing prnsperi
marvellously, and the priests are as de'verous at it
as our country practitioners,
Saute May Object to the report as jarring 41Ihour.
say evidence, which was never admitted in any
evidence•till the Board had nothing better to wake
a report with.
Before there is time to contradict this evidence,
perhaps there' will be the same visitation hop,
Heaven as has been sent to several parts the
kingdom, and.the same occasion ti recillz. to bid..;
culatlon, to stop the progress of coid.anical
pox but of this we shall have r,o report. for
Board do not chute tolti'.l%e ',mike of vi,hal ktip.
pens in London, except; it happens to their owil
annuitants, and the); declare the Bill of Mortalltv
erroneous last year, though formerly they teckon-
ecl lunch on their veracity, and they say Ilk It
word of the deaths of Mr. Williams, in Matt
chester•street, and of the nutid-servunt, u New-'c
twin-street, though.their visitor was, Sint to sect
them. . - •

,
The Gloster Association, re'.:Ontmended as ftll
example, has been put a stop to ever inic Sir
Edward Baynton Sandys's sun was So dangerously
attacked with confluent Small-pox, after hat ill 3.
been cnw-poxed by Dr. Jeniter himself the
Board want a little accuracy, therefore, on this
point ; but it wotll occupy too much of yor p
per to enter further into a criticiSin of their Re-
port, and, them fore, I will conclnde Myself,
Your humble servant.
commoist SENU.

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