Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

MR. FENNO,

What purpose can any man expect to answer by informing us that 40 men have been found, whom it was impracticable to bleed to death? Reverse the card, and what figure does this number of names make alongside the black list of victims to similar wanton experiments on human life? But the bleeding gentry know they have an advantage, and have all along sedulously improved it--They know it would not do for any one to come forward and say, that such and such men died by excessive bleeding: such a thing would not be borne--and yet perhaps the individual who is capable of perpetrating such atrocities in pursuit of a favorite system, is little better than he who bleeds you for your purse on the highway.

I am confident, nevertheless, that it is the only effectual way to silence those clamorous and prating satellites of this grand panacea. Let the disciples of blood publish statements of the number of their cures and the proportion, that we may contrast them with those of the other system. What is it to me that any man is carried through a fever by having all the blood drawn out of his body, when I know that three fall victims to a similar practice for every one that recovers? I pin my faith on no man's sleeve; but can truly subscribe myself

An Enquirer after Truth.