The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-03-23
For THE REcUKD.
THE OLD SQUARE ALMANAC.

nave lew pdFaRfapns respecting Tue tWo
great remedies Of modern times for that much
dreaded disease. Strangely enough, the
remedial methods encountered as much. oppo-
sition as though their promoters were intro
ducing plague or black-tongue and the VIC
lence and hostility of the opponents seemed
indicative Of a real affection and tender regard
for that long time devastator of Europe--the
small pox
The first Of the two msthonis. vas. inOeula-
ton. March is, i7ls, Ea1yf nj 5@sWortley
Montague, wife Of the British Ambassador at
Constantinople bad her infant son inoculated
with the virus Of smallpox, as means, Of
warding of the ordinary attack Of the fell
disease, which was then regarded as the most
wide spread aud pestilcntial disease in the
world. Lady Montague was in this but imi-
tatng practice common among The Turks.
Satisfied of It's efficacy, she advocated the
practice, upon her return to England, and
gained the support Of the Princess afterwards
Queen) Caroline and number Of the nobility.
But the physicians in body, and large
humber Of the clergy made strenuous and
absurd opposition. When, In 1921, Lady
Montague had her own daughter 'inoculated,
she pever allowed tile child to be alone with
the physicians, fearing some sinister treat-
ment from those who seemed SO DESTROYS that
Ii should not succeed. But succeed it did !;
and four condemned criminals were inoculated
with like result. TIen two daughters OF the
Princess underwent the operation with entire
safety. Bnt'the pulpit stoilned, and tie press
thundered, aud the doctors scowled and stamp.
ed their feet, and shook their indignant gold
headed canes; and the good Lady Montague
was almost worried out Of her life
Voltaire helped on tho Innovation, not only
by bis vigorous aud sensible address to the
Flench authorities, but still more, probably,
by his ingenious appeal TO the ladies, whom,
he told that the ladies Of Circassia and Georgia
had by this means for centuries been able to
maintain that personal beauty fof which they
are SO celebrated. During the first few years
of its progress, incubation had the misfortune
to be IN the hands Of ignorant and unskillful
practitioners AT length it found favour with
the regular physicians; small lox hospital
was established in London in 1747, and In it
and in gratuitous dispensaries the practice
became general, with the result OF great
diminulion Of smallpox. But in 1910, an act
of Parliament probioised the practice of in-
oculation, a second and better n.ethod having
been found to supersede it.
This second remedy was Cdcctaation (cow.
pox), discovered accidentally aud profession
ally tested by Dir. Jenner, in i796. If the
Ambassador Lady was abused, the scientific
ligion, of science, of humanity, it was decried,
denounced, condemned seCharges Of murder
and falsehood we're freely made by the learn
ed physicians who opposed vaccination" One
asked, gravely, what may be the consequences
of introdueins beslial humours into the hu-
man system, after long series of years
while another gave in his pamphlet five hum
dred eases of - beastlu ,aa..' ;.~..-.-- AZ .---
duced by Vaccinations, illustrated by colored
engravings of the horned boy and the cow
faced girl And third, Mosely by name,
told of boy whose face and other parts OF
the body we're covered with cow s hair. This
was fair game for the satirica poet, and thus
he paid lis respects to the imaginative scien.s
tist s r ee of III
20 Mosely thy books mighty fantasies rousing, n
Fun oil make me quake Tor my hearts dearest trea-
For fancy In dreams oft presents them all browsing
ON commons just like little Observation-Disclosures b
There, nibbling at thses stand Jem, Joe and Mary;
On their fOreheads oh horrible crumped horns bud
Here Tom with tall and poor William all hairy, sal
Reclincd in corner, are chewing the cud.qaia0
Another writer told Of childs disposition
being brutalized, SO thai IL ran on all fours,
believing Like cow, aud butting with its
head like bull. And Ferdinand Smyth
Stuart. claiming 10 be a. scion of the deposed
royal family. rose to a high pitch ofsvirtuous
Indignation aud pathos, in the course Of which
he exelaims--s Bat are we;o worship, to APP
plaud, or even to submit to Evil, to Buoua-
,srte. or to Vaccination, because they have
for some time been prosperous No!"g So
We wretched victims Of .lenner's impt,sture,
who are tenderly nursing an infiamea arm,
and denouncing the Doctors lancet and the
bewitched quill, take comfort In the thought
that youare not the only indignant protesters
against the discovery that has substituted
few days Of safe discomfort, AT home. for the
horrors of n small pox ward, abandoned by
all one loves. Hoofs, horns, tail and hair may
all be.rsked The odds are on tho side of
Jenner, yet. o e; ists ~
l.v f -- ;a sea
The minister Of mercy to our poor suffering
bodies is not the only bcneiaotor that suffers
evil for his good. Envy greed of gold and
malicious spite have but too often succeeded,
" in tliis bad world If .ours,Y in destroying
the character and influence, and robbing Of
position and property, both individuals aud
communities of men, whose motives and con-
duct made them deserve better fate. hss
Such was the Suppression Of the Order OF
the Knights Templas March %, 1912. The
most reliable history represents them MS above