Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-02-21

Kline pock can be converted into small lpox.
then II follows, that small pox can be convert.
ed into kline peck. Is DR.. Smith prepared 10
say So. Can he produce any evidence what
ever, that the matter of small pox a.
yer in single instance produced kline pock /;
IL small pox and kline peck are but modifica-
lions of the same disease, then small box.
kline peck and chicken pox are the same
Gan DIR. Smith produce any evidence, that
Inc matter OF small pox, or kline peck ever
produced chicken pox or that the matter of
chicken pox ever produced small pox or kline
peck He is'deGed to shew it.
The only writer Of any sort of cminence
who ever contended for the identity of the
Two diseases, or who believed that they were
IN the remotcst degree allied TO each other, is
Dr. Adams of London. From this gentle.
man II Is more than probable DR.. Smith may
have borrowed his ideas. Fourteen wears
since, his opinions were ably and in a most
satisfactory manner, disproved by the conclu-
sive experiments of MIR. Bryce, an intelligent
surgeon oil Great Britain. DR.. Adams assert
cd, =" that II person be inoculated at the same
time with the virus Of two separate distem-
pers, the one will remain unaltered till the
other complete its progress, and will then
take us many days to run its course. as il it
had not been inserted, until the progress of
the first was complete" the expert
ments of Mr. Bryce prove, Z" that both punc-
lures Will advance reg nlarly as if only one had
been made during the period necessary for
Inc local Stage of these infections, and until
the constitutional stage from one of them 10
excited, at which time, and not before. the
progress of the other morbid poison. pro, ided
It's local course be finished, will be arrested
unlii the first constitutional affection has dis
appeared DIR. Adams also asserts. that if
small poN and COW pox matter are inserted at
me same time IN different parts Of the same
person, there will he no dnferupfion ,pduterer-
IN the progress of either (wishing To prove
the identity NO doubt Of the two Diseases y
that both will begin and go through their
severai courses with the same Regularity, as if
only one OF them had been inserted in two
u ~ piaces---Now The experiments of Mr.
bryce inc"n'estibly prove, that as soon as
constitutional affection is produced, by small
pox for example, the further progress of vac
cine Infection, if its local course be finished
Is arrested until the variolous action has ex
iia'isted itsei' on the constitutio For fnr
theF information un this subject the render il
referred to The Edinburg Review for l8IO.-
Ahese ihrts prove in the most conclusive
and satisfactory manner, that The small mn,
anu HIne peck are essentially different and
incapable under any circumstances, of being
c"nYerted INTO each other.-If Dr. Smiths
oPiHi"hs De correct, then mankind have been
h 'Shorahce Tor Z years back.--If they be
e",'C', lei us at oacc abandon vaccination.
ana adopt again the old practice of inocuI,,
tiop, Tor the SINAI, pox. But unfor,unotov co,
Inc Doctors theory, fortunate for humanity.
a1d Tor Dt. Smith when he comes to rive
me subject a thorough examination, he finds
tliat tlc small pox was not Introduced into N.
C"ioi ma, from any change which the vaccine
matter had undergone, but i'm letter In the
speaker al Congress, he admits. tha1 if il
more than probable that he had himself
transmitted the small pox matter. tbronqb
inist"ke to DIR. Ward, in the form of scabs.
when he rad taken from small pox patient,
IL Dr. Smiths ideas be correct, on what prin-
cipie can lie justify himself when he I. visits
u"iiy, PfescFioes tor, and handles small pox
p'uents "hen lie preserves the small box
p'"tt n The same room, or probably in the
same desk or drawer, with the yaccne mr.
when ne transmits 10 his subscribers the vac
cine virus collected in Baltimore? Accord
no 10 MS Ideas the same letter which CONVEYS
tne anildote, may at the same time convey
.ic poison. am act at all disposed TO at
tiDUte any improper motive TO DR.. Smith in
dihusing, she unfortunately has dome the W.
rioiols Injection. He deserves credit for the
ranaor with WHICH he has admitted his mis-
take. only wish that since he has discover
Gu tue Tact, that The small pnx infection wasa
ho' introduced into n. Carolina, from any
Grunge "lch The vaccine virus itself had I'M
dergone, that he will make himself acquainted
with all the authors who have written IN Tho
subject of vaccination, be CONVINCED of his
errors aCd then in the same candid and nub-
lie manner, recant the erroneous opinions he
has advanced,
snail now proceed To make some remarks
Oh ine nature of disease which appears to be
nothing more than modified and comparative
~ innocent tnrm ofsnalI poN, In Europe and
I'D uiIs country 1t has been called the vari,Joid
uisease' Ibis disease is not altogether Few
either IN this country or in Europe. In the
Euinburg Medical and Surgical Journal for
1915, there VIII be found cry well written
paper on TINS disease from the pen of DR.
oo'i" hofnpson. In another number of the
s S Journal VIII he found paper on the
e"'le sunlecl, written by Mr. Hennen, a sur
geon in the British army. ShnuId this niece
meet the eye of any physcian who was sin
dent OF medicine in the University of Penn
syIvanIa, IN the years 1911 and 1812-be will
tecohrc' that IN consequence ofspme subjects
pe'nG brought INTO The dissccfing room, diving
oi small poY, such of the medical class who
iad not been vaccinated, had the oneration
perlormed--and that large number Of the
students who had been previously yaesinated
tested the efficacy Of vaccination by subject
Ing themselves to inOcuIation with small box
matter. Out Of this large number, hut one OF
them had any eruptive disease, and in this
case, the eruption differed very much from
the eruption Of small pox-and disappeared
about the 9th day.-Dr. Thompson states
that this epidemic (the varioloid dsease) nc II
IN Edinburg attacked three differ
ent Glasses OF persons, viz. Those who had
passed through the small pox, those who had
had the COW peck, and those who had had
% COW peck nor small pox: That to ali