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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    on the fourth. These had taken the infection before they were mccinated. ^ The third child sickened of the small-pox an the 16th, and died on the 22d day after vaccination. This'had caught the small-pox from one of the others, and could not have any infection at the time it was vaccinated. Here, to use the language of that learned body to which the worthy knight belongs, on a similar occasion, Sir Isaac convicts himself of gross ignorance, or wilful misrepresentation, by pretending that these three children had been vaccinated previously to the occurrence of the small-pox; and then giving us to under- stand, in the very same breath, that their arms never inflamed, and consequently that they were not vaccinated at all. But as if even this specimen of his profound ignorance of the subject of vaccination, which he pretends to know better than any member of the Jennerian Society, were i;^ot suflBcient, he sometime afterwards brought up to the College of Physicians, what he calls, A list of persons who have lately had the small- pox in Cambridge, after vaccination with pro- per effect; and then, to heighten the farce, and shew how well he was acquainted with AVhat was going forward in the medical world, be entered into a correspondence with the