Indianapolis, Ind., April 14, 1899.
To the Editor:
—In one of your "Minor Comments" of April 8 (vide Journal, p. 770), complaint is made concerning "one W. B. Clarke" (the "one" lest there might be two, perhaps), in a published communication "made up of alleged quotations from medical men, against vaccination," in which "isolated statements are quoted from noted physicians, but separated from their context so as to make them express opinions contrary to the general tone of their published writings and their real sentiments," which presentation you characterize as "thoroughly dishonest" and characteristic of "unscrupulous cranks." Having long been a reader of the Journal, the best medical journal in the world, and not wishing to fall under its condemnation, but desiring to be set right in the matter, please allow me to say that the article you refer to was mainly made up from the work "Smallpox and Vaccination,"