This is physiology, and divine-human decency, and like a man's life. Vaccination traverses and tramples upon all these safeguards and wisdoms; it goes direct to the blood, or, still worse, to the lymph, and not with food; it puts poison, introduced by puncture, and that has no test applicable to it, and can have no character given to it but that it is fivefold animal and human poison, at a blow into the very centre, thus otherwise guarded by nature in the providence of God. This is blood assassination, and like a murderer's life.* Mr. Finally, vaccination is an attempt to swindle Nature. The vaccinator says, "Come, my little dear, come and let me give you a disease wherewith I shall so hoax Nature that henceforth you may live in what stench you please, and smallpox shall not catch you." But can Nature be swindled? can Nature be hoaxed? Lowell, in praising the genius of Cervantes, says, "There is a moral in Don Quixote, and a very profound one it is that whoever quarrels with Nature, whether wittingly or unwittingly, is certain to get the worst of it." There is sometimes an apparent triumph over Nature. We do wrong, and fancy we may evade the penalty by some cunning contrivance, but ere long we perceive with dismay that the consequences were only concealed or staved off, and that we have to answer to the uttermost farthing. Vaccination is a dodge kindred with incantations and similar performances whereby it is hoped to circumvent the order of the Highest, and compel his favour apart from obedience to his will. By artifice it is attempted to obviate a consequence of illliving, whilst persisting in ill-living; but if it were possible to escape smallpox by such means, we should have equal punishment in some other mode. No: smallpox with its alternatives and equivalents can only be avoided through compliance with the old-fashioned prescription, "Wash you, make you clean; cease to do evil, learn to do well." The lesson is hard to learn, and harder to practise; but there is no evading it if we would * On Human Science, Good and Evil, and its Works; and on Divine Revelation and its Works and Sciences. London, 1876. be healthy and happy. Wherefore all tricks like vaccination are bound to nullity and disaster. As Hosea Biglow says "You hev gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God." WILLIAM A. GUY, F.R.C.P., F.R.S. Is Vaccination a preventive of Smallpox? To this question there is, there can be, no answer except such as is couched in the language of figures. Journal of the Statistical Society, 1882, vol. xlv. G. F. KOLB, p. 414. Member of the Royal Statistical Commission of Bavaria. From childhood I had been trained to look upon Cowpox as an absolute protective from Smallpox. I believed in Vaccination more strongly than in any ecclesiastical dogma. Numerous and acknowledged failures did not shake my faith. I attributed them either to the carelessness of the operator or the badness of the lymph. In course of time the question of Compulsory Vaccination came before the Reichstag, when a medical friend supplied me with a mass of statistics in favour of Vaccination, in his opinion, conclusive and unanswerable. This awoke the statistician within me. On inspection, I found the figures delusive; and closer examination left no shadow of doubt in my mind that the statistical array of proof represented a complete failure. My investigations were continued, and my judgment was confirmed. For instance, Cowpox was introduced to Bavaria in 1807, and for a long time none, except the newly-born, escaped Vaccination; nevertheless in the epidemic of 1871, of 30,472 cases of Smallpox, no less than 29,429 were vaccinated, as is shown in the documents of the State.-From Letter to MR. WILLIAM TEBB, 22nd January, 1882. INDEX. Abbott, Mr., speaker, House of Acksell, Dr., 408. Adams, Dr., Waltham, uses small- pox cowpox, 76. lation, 120; on cowpox before Adams, American president, 379. of Commons' committee, 1871, Allen v. Worthy, 551. Alsop, Mr., surgeon, Calne, 130. Paris 1880, Cologne 1881, 544; John Pickering's, 574. Aspinwall, Dr., variolator, Boston, Atheism imputed to variolators, 42. Austria, death-rates compared with Ayrton, A. S., vaccinators should Badcock, Mr., Brighton, produces Baillie, Dr., witness for Jenner, 190. Baker, John, one of Jenner's vic- Baker, Thomas, 509, 590; evidence Bakewell, Dr. R. H., evidence House of Commons' committee Ballard, Dr., prize Essay on Vacci Balmis, Dr. F. X., expedition as Banks, Sir Joseph, 146, 147, 226. Barbados, variolation, 38. Jenner's early years, 94; extra- meeting with Jenner and atti- Uses and sends Jenner equine Barrow, Dr., "a disgrace to hu- Barrow, Mr., 538. Barttelot, Colonel, 537. Bath Vaccine Pock Institution, 163. Batts of Temple variolated, 19. Beaufort, Duke of, 176. home, 92; inhabitants vario- Berkeley, Admiral, 186, 194. Birch, John, variolation harmless, harmless and would never Birch, Penelope, reprints brother's Blandford fire and smallpox, 85. Bleeding, 519, 584. Blood-making, process described, Bombay, vaccination introduced, Bompas, flaming fire-brand, 77. Boringdon, Lord, bill to suppress Boston, variolation first practised, Bouley, Prof., experiments with Bourne, Sturges, denounces vario- Boy, cowpox oxfaced, 297. in New England, 2, 5-7, 56,371. Brady, Mr., liberal pay for vacci- Bragge, Mr., surgeon, attempts use of cowpox, 138. Brett, T. B., St. Leonards, 590. 561. Bright, John, deafness of House of Commons, 592. Bright, Ursula M., forcible vacci- on British Medical Association icism of vaccination, 285; sees Bryce's Test, 353. Buchan, Dr. William, Domestic Medicine, 53; recommends va- Burns, James, 590. Burrows, Dr., London bills of mor- Burrows, Sir J. Cordy, production Butler, Bishop, national insanities, Buxton, Sir T. Fowell, 587. Calcraft, Miss, Jenner on Grosvenor Calcutta Gazette, 1804, 383. Candlish, John, 565, 567, 577; re- Carter, R. Brudenell, invaccina- Catharine, Empress of Russia, va- Caution against Vaccine Swindlers, Ceely of Aylesbury generates small- Cervantes, 595. Ceylon, variolation and vaccina- Chadwick, Edwin, “Keep your eye |