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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    These two gentlemen felt sore on reading th« Cambridge Report. Let the galled jade wmce. It was Sir Isaac who talked about small-pox without eruptions, and cow-pox without in- flammation; it was Mr. David Wray who inoculated for the small-pox with aseton, and, when failures had occurred, pretended it was the cow-pox. Some people imagine, as Sir Isaac is a Pro- fessor, and a Royal Professor too, that he give* lectures on the healing art, and those of no ordinary kind ; but as there is no royal road to geometry, so, alas! there is no royal road to physic. The fountains of medical science, in both our English universities, are dried up; and medical students are under the necessity of seeking elsewhere that instruction, which their own alma mater denies. This is certainly a national reflection, but it liiay well be doubted whether it is a national loss. Let any man read the following extract of a note from Sir Isaac Pennington to Mr, Thackeray, and then decide the question^. Sir Isaac Pennington has seen Bush's children in Castle-end. They were vaccinated on Friday the 29th ult. and none of their armt inflamed. One of them sickened of the small-pox . on the second day af ter mccinationt and another