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A TABLE
SHEWING THE ADVANTAGES OF
VACCINE INOCULATION.

THE NATURAL SMALL-POX	THE INOCULATED SMALL-POX.	THE INOCULATED COW-POCK.
I. The natural Small-pox is a loathsome, infectious, painful, and fatal disease. It is confined to no climate; but rages in every quarter of the world, and destroys a tenth part of mankind. II. Those who survive the ravages of that dreadful distemper, often survive only to be the victims of other maladies; or to drag out a miserable existence worse than death. III. This cruel and lamentable disorder leaves behind it pits, scars, and other blemishes; and bodily deformities which embitter life.	I. The inoculated Small-pox also is loathsome, infectious, painful, and sometimes fatal; and, when partially adopted, spreads the contagion, and increases the mortality of the disease. II. It sometimes occasions the same maladies as the natural Small-pox. III. It frequently leaves behind it the same blemishes and deformities as the natural Small-pox; which are the more deplorable as they were brought on by a voluntary aet.	I. The inoculated Cow-pock scarcely deserves the name of a disease. It is not infectious, and in the opinion of the most experienced practitioners, has never proved fatal. II. It occasions no other disease. On the contrary, it has often been known to improve health; and to remedy those diseases under which the patient before laboured. III. It leaves behind no blemish, but a blessing;—one of the greatest: ever bestowed on man,—a perfect security against the future infection of the Small-pox.

From this faithful statement of the advantages attending Vaccine Inoculation, it must appear evident
to every unprejudiced person, that it is the duty as well as the interest of every parent, of every
individual, and of every nation, to adopt the practice; and to hasten
THE EXTERMINATION OF THE SMALL-POX.