Show WHAT OF SMALLPOX Editor Tribune Apropon of tho local contention UM to tho vlrtuo of vaccination for smallpox If spaco In your columnH following will permit will you kindly 1 publish tho Tho writer desires to know whothor Dr Jenner was u benefactor of thu human rnco or of tho medical fraternity 7 Roforonco to tho last cdltlou ninth of tho Encyclopedia I Britannica which han always been recognized u tho worlds authority on all mibjpcis especially stu tlstlcs other onoyclopodlnA and BOIHO medical Journals caused mu to doubt tho ofllcacv of vaccination us a provcnuitlvo for smallpox although until nflcru diy ago I was taught to and dId btllovo that Dr Jonnor wua nol to tIm Inventor of tho plough the greatest benefactor of tho humin race I hao healthy xmvacclnatcd children attending at-tending tim public Mchools and nhrink from the responsibility of ditormlnlng amid GO much conlllct of medical authority author-ity In which of the two cliutses Dr Jennor should bo placed as a benefactor and am situated Informed then nro manyjpeoplo similarly Thoro recently appeared In tho Dcserct Phoning News evidently from si layman I si challenge to debate tla question or vaccination cination Can the medical fraternity of thin city afford to let that challenge pass unanswered Tho public want to know the truth and In my Judgment tho duty devolves upon tho fraternity to debate tho merits of a question upon which In their ranks thcro seems to bo such unanimity and thus an nlhllato all doubt Respectfully p 1 nTv Salt Lake January 13 1900 The smallpox question Is a trying I ono In this city We have n large society hero who believe that there Is I no disease except In the Imagination II wo have another very large company that docs not believe In taking doc Ye taltng precautions precau-tions against dlseaso As they late tho caso it Is something like this If any are sick let the elders bo called in and let them lay hands upon the alTbctcd and If I tho evil spirit Is exorcised cised It Is well IC on tho other hand the patient dies still it j is well Again there are others who have discovered dis-covered that vaccination is not a certain cer-tain prevcntatlve of the disease and hcnco they do not believe In It there Is i still another class that believes that vaccination la a dangerous practice and these can trace any disease that a person ever has after having been vaccinated back to that operation The reference which Mr Daly cites Is so opposite to other authoritative articles on the same subject that to Judge Its merits ono ought to know tho writer and to ascertain whether he did not consciously or unconsciously determine when ho began tho article to paint vaccination In the most sin Inter light possible I is tructhat vaccination vac-cination Is not nn absolute preventative preventa-tive Neither Is smallpox itself for many people havo had the disease a second time Again it Is as the writer In Brllannia writes impossible to Judge the effects of one epidemic by another for ono year it will be exceedingly exceed-ingly malignant while again it will sweep over a country and amount to little more than chicken pox At the same time the medical profession oC every school believe in vaccination they Insist that when any ill results follow fol-low vaccination it is I duo to either tho Incornpetency of the operator or some fault In the virus and that all the statistics of this country show that genuine vaccination Is I as a rule the very greatest possible preventive of smallpox They ought to be the very iiighcst authority for the people but It is clear they arc not altogether respected respect-ed as such Probably a sharp epidemic will be the first direct testimony |