Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-04-08

Uptn human fife, to It's birth Place in
Africa, 1t is fill probable, .ieyeral hun
! ,ired millions of people have peiifhed BY
/ il, face its frh insrod utiion into tie
world. In contemplating this immenie
/ defFaeion of OR fpecies By fngie Of
! eaf, together with the rayages il has &C.
/ Officially committed upon,h e ienies, Up
on beauty, and UPON heslih IN petiens
pho have furviged it, we are floek with
| horror at the retrcipeet, ,ano are led
| mourn over the wide extended fcene which
il exhibits OF human miieiy. But happily
for mankind, this general mortality and
| miiery wall be felt and fecn no more. A
| new era is begun in the medical h,itory
OF man, and the mott mortal OF all dh-
eafcs is about TO be truck cut CT the LIT ct
human evils. Its deRiny is fixed, and
the day is not very remote, when the We
ry name of the fmall pox ihalI be found
only in books Of medicine. l need hard
" add, that ihis great revolution il favor
| OF thepopulation and happineis of cur tPe-
cics, has been effected By the labiiitalion
of harmiels difeafc, taken troma domei.
tic animal, 10 the flnali pox. Thick and
!atfing be the honors Of that highly favor
ed phyGcian, who fri difcoveied and ei-
tabliihcd this isfe and delicate aatido;e &c
mortal and loatbfome dileale. Unkova
I'LL lately, beyond the limits OF the diff
triet in which he prattiled, the name of
DR.. 'Jenner has extended to every part OF
the globe, and will be coeval with tine
islc!f. His extenlive and durable fame
will be merited, for he has introduced
into the world, HE means OF iayng lnilh-
ons Of lives.
$ For full account of the advantages
of vaccine incubation, above inocutaion
for the final pox, refer you to DR.. Al
kin's epi,omc Of nearly all that has been
pnblilhed upon this fubjett. ! fhall brisf-
ly enusnerate them.
/. It requires no preparation in diet
and medicine.
3. It may be performed with eqcal
tafcty at ali ieaions.
2. 1t is mild difeafe, feldom conhu-
irg patient to his hou(:, or interrupt.
ing his buhoels.
4. 1t rifSs no ienfs, and does no injury
70 beauty.
{. Iris not contagious.
s. L iometimes carries off chronic dii-
cafes.
:. 1t is never mortal, except when it
is accidentally combined with other diff
cafes.
Y" Let us not be discouraged by the few
nfances which have occurred Of the vac
cine matter having failed to produce the
difeafe. Time and experience will foon
correct our errors, and perieG ouT know,
edge in this branch Of medicine. | well
reooilea the time when incubation for
the lmall pox was attended with much Ieis
certainty and fuccefs than it is at prefent
and when the deaths and fore arms from il,
had nearly banifhed it from our couosry.
So unpopular was il, from thcle and Other
lefs realonable caufes, that DR.. Boylton
had the windows of his honle broken for
attempting TO introduce it into the then
province of MaGschuletts.
6 In expecting our triumph in the con-
oueif, which re4lcn and humanity have
Iately obtained over the mot mortal Of all
di(eafes, we are led TO anticipate the time,
when they nalI both obtain fnilaT con
queH, by applying the msans whici,haVs
51ea discovered, TO the preventi m and an
inhalation of the plague. How long the
blindnefs, which has perpe'uated this dll
cafe for 10 many ages may continue, !
know not but / believe il is as much
out of the power of prejudice, error and
in,ersa, to prevent its final and total ex-
tintfion, as to prevent the change OF iea-
fons, 0, the annual revolutions Of our globe
around the fun"
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