VACCINATION AND WATER CURE.

New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1721, 6 September 1862, Page 4

VACCINATION AND WATER CURE.

When doctors disagree, The pupils then are free.—Hudibras. To the Editor of the New-Zealander. Silt.—Time only can prove the tmth or falsehood of certain systems, and when we get Satan fig h^Sß Satan, his kingdom cannot long stand. Alter the lap* of more than half a century, Dr. Jenner's aWXmj is put on its trial, and found wanting. I have la J looked into some of the printed statistics of lheLonao hospitals, and in them 1 find that o faUthe l ? aU !S admitted therein for small pox a greater number at of those who] had been vaccinated than £" Vse \ e had not been so treated. VaccinatioS ' .\ cr c thought and pens of earnest and indcpenden««(« * especially in France and Germany. In,'IPQLt. Hud the" following doctors openly examining tujrs ject, Drs. Ancelon, Bayard, Houles, Villette, kc. a» u in Germany, Drs. Ennemoser, Kreiger, Ber, l«nr, Lutzc, Winter, Kloebur, Ilammernick, &C-i * . several medical works. Does not the P"* , JJJ practice of punctioning healthy bodies, and IUI I~ nating them with an animal poison produce ettec prejudicial to health and longevity? It has W* •JEJ the penetrating vision of Kant, for he says, "As t • Jenner's discovery, he (Kant) apprehended the great - danger from the absorption of a brutal miasma into u human blood, or at hast into the lymph. I™ llo 0 f German authors deplore the injurious influence vaccination upon their respective countries, in l

countries it is compulsory to get children vaccinated, in England it is not; hence the difference in the amount of births in proportion to marriages. In France the diminution of the number of births for the last 16 years has doubled. Owing to the arbitrary measures of the French Government, the practice of vaccination in France has exceeded, probably doubled, the practice in England. If yon compare the statistic returns of London and Paris, you will observe that the infant population suffers more, while the adult population suffers less in England than in France from small pox. England has time yet to stop on the verge of the precipice to which tho credulity of its men of science is leading it, but from which the good sense of its people recoils? Why have not the medical faculty invented some preventives for other eruptive deseases, such wi measles, scarlititiu, &C. Parents, it all lies in your own power, by attention to ablutions, by giving frequent changes of linen, by not giving stimilating diet, and j bv keeping your children as much as possible in the open air; but on no account allow vaccination or drugs. Should small pox occur, attend to tho following plain directions: -Wring a towel out ot tepid water, (85 degrees) and wrap around the child, like a pack described in last letter, keep him in it for three quarters of an hour, night and morning. After this pack rub with towel squeezed put of water about 80 cleg., and r put (in wet body bandage with flannel over it. Continue this treatment till the eruption is fully out, then Sponge the body night and morning with tepid water. Give arrowroot or barley water for drink, but no flcshm meat, [f there be a re-oectirence, pack again. Yours, &C., PIIILANTT HKOriS.