To Mr. ROBERTS, Surgeon and Apothecary, No. 10, Warwick Street, Golden Square. Sir, Albany Houfe, Piccadilly, ift Sept. 1805. YOUR letter demands my acknowledgments. A defender of truth is an honourable character. The wanton falfehood you have expofed would never have been noticed by me; nor even known to me, but from your pcliteness. The defpicable traducer, who pays no regard to morality, is beneath confideration, excepting for the mifchief he may occafion. Thefe modern Barbaric Cow Worfhipers feem to have inherited, with their enthufiafin, the principles of their Tartarian race. The Romans, and all civilized nations, have always held a liar in great abhorrence. The Scythian Cow Idolaters of old were renowned for lying. Parthis mendacior was as much a Roman adage, as Vaccinatoribus mendacior is among us. May they long enjoy this privilege exclufively! One of thefe bufy, little, perpetrators of mifchief, has been practiling and tampering with fome of the people whofe Cafes I have related. to cajole them into fubornation. This fame evil fpirit gave a poor woman, I am informed, feven fillings, for her to conceal her child's having the Small Pox after the Cow Pox. Here is an act which makes humanity fhudder! The fervices you have rendered the publick, in bringing to light the foul deeds of Cow Pox infatuation, will ever be remembered to your credit, and, I truft, to your advantage. I was never my intention to be a Publisher of Cafes of Cow Pox failure and mifchief; forefeeing, as I did, the labour would be endlefs. The doctrines I have advanced are fufficiently proved by what I have already published; and by the mifery of thoufands. I have, nevertheless, recommended to my medical friends to be vigilant, until the declining peftiferous Inoculation fhall totally ceafe. I am, Sir, your most obedient and faithful fervant, B. MOSELEY. To Dr. MOSELEY, Albany Houfe, Sir, years old, fon of Mr. Morgan, of Kirkman's Place, Tottenham-court Road, had the Cow Pox in April 1803, inoculated by Mr. Wachtel at the Small Pox Hofpital. He has now (Sept. 22, 1805) a very fine large diftinét small Pox at the Crifis. In this fiate I was called in to fee the child; not to afcertain the difeale, for that was obvious enough; but to remark an apparent ferophulous eruption on the head, of twelve months fanding; the confequence, undoubtedly, of Vaccination. I wish you would take the trouble to fee him. I am, Sir, with much refpect, your devoted humble fervant, DAN. SUTTON. No. 9. Everett Street, Ruffill Square, 23d Sept. 1805. To Mr. SUTTON. Albany House, Piccadilly, Sir, 24th Sept. 1805. ACCORDING to your defire, I went this morning to Kirkman's Place, and faw Mr. Morgan's fon William, and found the fate of the Small Pox to be as you defcribed to me in your obliging communication. I have feen fo many inftances lately of the mifchief and failure of the Cow Pox, and they are become fo notorious, that I have defifted from giving myfelf any farther trouble in fearching for evidence againft Cow Pox Inoculation. The practice must ceafe. All men of fenfe, who have not renounced it, are yielding to the weight of daily-accumulating conviction. I cannot take upon me to fay what may have occurred to others; but I have heard from good authority, or have myfelf_actually feen, or might have fech if I could have fpared time to attend to the information I have received from various quarters, nearly two thousand inftances of Small Pox after Cow Pox; or of the pernicious, or fatal effects, of what is called Vacci nation. The common people, who are most expofed to the vifita ion of epidemical difeafes, and who have fuffered fo much from the Cow Pox, are fo well on their guard from woeful experience, that we fhall foon hear no more of Cow Pox Inoculation; and I wish we may be able to fav, what the Cow Pox enthufiafts do of the Small Pox, that "it will be banished from the Clafs of Difeafes;" and and that it will be remembered only by Name." We have, I am forry to obferve, feen too much of its difaftrous effects, to have well-grounded hopes for the latter. William Morgan's left arm has two cicatrices where the Cow Pox was inferted. I do not think the difeafed ftate of his head, although caufed by the Cow Pox, to be, correctly speaking, fcrophulous; but the genume Cow Pox inveterate defoedation. His ears are in a dreadful condition; and if he e cape without deafnefs, he will not, I fear, without the lofs of his left ear. An almoft fimilar object was lately fent to me by Mr. Birch. It was the fon of a gentleman in Great Pulteneyflreet, who had been inoculated for the Cow Pox two years before, at the Central Houfe in Salisbury Court. This child broke out in ulcerations and abfceffes all over his head and left leg and thigh. He had afterwards a large hard tumour on the left fide of the abdomen, extending to the left groin. His ears and temples became rotten. His head an entire ulceration, with hard knots and lumps. When the ulcers on his limb dried up, the parts were blue, and immediately after his death they turned as black as ink, but no other part of him. their whole practice in Inoculation dio nat amount to three hundred inftances. Admitting this to be the fact, for I am inclined to yield more to their vanity than to their judgment, then their wonderfully great experience in Small Pox Inoculation vanithes; which was put out as a fuare to catch the unwary. But what is the opinion and practice of the really experienced fince the in troduction of the new fyftem of Inoculation in 1763? Dr. Archer, Baron, Dimfdale, Dr. Woodville, and fome other eminent Inoculators, not to rank myself with them, will hardly admit that they loft on an average niore than one in one thoufand, which could fairly be imputed to Inoculation; and I believe their statement may be near the fact. In my Treatife on the fubject of Inoculation, published in 1796, I have not fiated any loffes, becaufe none had occurred that could juftly be charged to the confequence of Inoculation; although I had inoculated nearly one hundred thousand at that time. Nor has any occurred fince. I do not mean to contend that, out of this vafi number, many have not died in the month of Inoculation; not from the violence of the Small Pox, but from accidental cafualties only, totally unconnected with the Small Pox. The cafe baffled the fkill of that able It has alfo been lately maintained furgeon, with all the affiance I could by thefe experienced Inoculators, adgive him; and the child died in a mi-vocates for Vaccination, that many ferable manner. Mrs. Morgan told me he could not afford to pay for any more medicines for her fon's relief. I will, therefore, take care that he shall not want for any thing which can be of ufe to him. I am, Sir, your moft obedient and most bumble fervant, B. MOSELEY. To Dr. MOSELEY. IN most of the Treatifes in defence of Vaccination, the authors ftate, that one in three hundred die of the Small Pox under the hands of the most experienced Inoculators. The statement given before the Committee of the Houfe of Commons is, it seems, to the fame effect. Before Cow Pox Inoculation was introduced, thefe very experienced practitioners could never be brought to confefs that they ever loft a patient in all their practice. They muft, then, either have uttered a grofs falsehood, or have had the Small Pox a fecond time, I am frongly of opinion that these infiances have occurred only among themfelves, or fuch others as have not had the gift to diftinguish the Chicken Pox, or fome other eruptive difeafe not variolous, from the Small Pox. With refpect to my own experience, I do aver, that not a fingle inftance of the kind has happened in the whole courfe of my life, notwithtlanding what may have been afferted to the contrary. I am induced by motives of humanity for the public welfare to submit the foregoing thoughts to your confideration; and fhould they be of any ufe to you, in your most honourable endeavours to bring back the deluded, multitude to a due fenfe of their inte refts, you are perfectly welcome to make ufe of them in any manner most conducive thereto. For, as you were. the firft, and, for feveral years, the only oppofer of Cow Pox Inoculation, and have fo often and fo ably exhibited its failures and mifchiefs, the publick look up to you with that refpect which is due to your boldnefs, of alone undertaking the arduous task, against an hot of enthufiafts and illiberal feribblers; whofe prejudices and ignorance are at length expofed by the direful confequences which you predicted; and which have, to their confufion, lately fo fatally taken place. I request to repeat that the very early, open, and manly attitude in which you fuccefsfully ufed the Variolous weapons, highly deferves the plaudits of all mankind; and if the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain were to vote twice the fum to you, they did for introducing this beftial difeafe into the world, it would be doing you and the publick but very moderate juftice. I heartily congratulate you on the profpect of your Herculean labours being at an end. The bulk of mankind now fee and experience the effects of this delufive Cow Pox Inoculation; and will no longer be gulled by its treacherous advocates. I am, with repect and esteem, Sir, your obedient humble fervant, DANIEL SUTTON. Everett Street, Ruffell Square, 30th Sept. 1805. To Mr. SUTTON. Albany Houfe, Piccadilly, Sir, 20 October, 1805. AS my uniform perfeverance against introducing the Cow Pox beftial humour into the human race has met with the approbation and fupport of the experienced and learned, I confider the effufions of ignorance and illiberality, fo much reprobated by all difcerning people, merely as the froth and filth of that Cow Pox mafs of corruption, which I have uncovered, expofed to light, and put into a flate of fermentation. This I expected. When I first undertook to counteract the plans, and to ftorm the trenches, of the Cow Poxers, in my three first campaigns against them in 1798, 1799, and 1800, I was aware of the fort of defence that would be made by a rude rabble, without a leader, and without fkill, order, or difcipline. I have feen in the courfe of my travels fo many Mountebank Tricks, and fo much Bottle Conjuring, that I was as little difiayed at the Fantaccini of the Cow Pox army, as Town fend or Macmanus would be among a gang who live by lawlefs depredations on fociety. I knew that Time would bring them to juftice. It is certain I fhould have been more flattered in this victory over the Cow Poxers, had the Flocktons themfelves, the chiefs of the pantomimic war, attacked me in propriâ perfonâ; and not to have had their parts undertaken by their Buffoons, who know nothing of the Farce but what they are taught. from day to day by their prompters. However, like their Bartholomew Fair brethren, thefe Underlings relax our rifible mufcles. They have been the cause of fome entertainment to the publick; and we muft not entirely forget the objects who present themselves to be laughed at, only for our amufe ment. We have had fome diverfion allo from Cow Pox Printers; Cow Pox News Papers; Cow Pox Bookfellers; and Cow Pox Reviewers. Some refuing to print; fome to advertise; fome to fell; and all ready to abufe and commit to the flames my heretical Anti-Cow Pox doctrines. The Prefs was, at the commencement of the fiege, fo Cow Pox mad, that I verily thought I must have turned Printer myfelf; hired a few devils; and fold my work on falls in the fireets. Mr. Goldfon's firft Pamphlet in March 1834; Mr. Birch's firft Publication in October in the fame year; Mr. Rogers's and Dr. Squirrel's in 1805, all decifive in favour of the doctrines I had repeatedly advanced in feveral years antecedent Publications*, * For accounts and abuse of my Differtations against the Cow Pox, fee the Gentleman's Magazine for January, May, July, and August, 1799, and the London Review for March 1799, which fays, "Dr. Mofeley is the first person who has called the public attention on this fubject; the introduction of which he pointedly condemns." See alfo the London Medical Review and the British Critic, both for June 1799; the Critical Review for November 1799; the Gentleman's Magazine for January and March 1800; the Medical and Surgical Review for March 1800; Anti-Jacobin for June 1800; the Monthly Review for 1800; Dr. Thornton's Decifive Facts, 4th ed. p. 123, publifhed Jan. 1803; in which my learned friend is much furprifed that I should be the first to attack Vaccine Inoculation. My learned friend then called me woning xaxwv; what does he think of my prophecies now? &c. and |