The vaccine scourge. No. III. Containing the Cambridge report, with a poetical & philosophical epistle from a bone-setter : a rod for the fool's back.

  • Ring, John, 1752-1821.
Date:
1810
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    Avhicli are bantlings of Dr. Reece, the Medical- Chest man, bandied about from one proprietor to another, and from one editor to another, till nobody knows on one day, who will be the editor or the proprietor on the next, no man of any character will write in them. As to the Observer, though Mr. Lipscomb, alias Dr. Lipscomb, has retired, Dr. Walker is its constant reader, and his own panegyrist; and Dr. Moseley and Mr. Birch are its constant correspondents. It is there they vent their venom on the College of Physicians, and on vaccination. J. Davies is so arrogant and conceited as to suppose, that the Jennerian Society can do nothing without his advice and assistance: he thinksthey should not have sent two of their own champions on this errand, but two parties of contrary opinions. We therefore desire him to inform us, whether, on any future occasion, he would wish the members of the society, which is honoured with the patronage of all the Royal Family, to be seen in company with any of the miscreants, called anti-vaccinists; one of whom has narrowly escaped the pillory, and only escaped it by perjury, and another has narrowly escaped the gallows. J. Davies admits, that Dr. Rowley's cases are the unconnected effusions of a mind poisoned