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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    tlon which London, Edinburgh, atid Paris, could afford. Nay, it is asserted, that he did not ask for his diploma, till he had complied, with academic forms, by keeping his terms at Emanuel's, and eating as many College pud- dings as the statutes of the University require. Some people are so ill-natured as to suspect, that Sir Isaac refused Mr. Thackeray his di- ploma, not because he had defiled his hands with surgery, as Hippocrates and Galen had jdone before him, but because he was a formid- able rival; that he therefore determined to mortify him, and to stifle his bantling in the birth. This accounts for his antipathy to vaccina- tion i and whatever public-spirited motives, the opponents of the pra6tice may pretend to, there is not a single instance on record, in which their hostility may not be clearly traced either to personal interest, or private resent- ment, or to botli. So anxious was Sir Isaac to explode vaccina- tion, that when he met with the chicken-pox after the cow-pock, be called it the small-pox, as other anti-vaccinists had done before him. Such, indeed, was the virulence, which he displayed in the controversy, that when the deputation waited on him, to inquire into tha reports, propagated by him and his partisans^