An Oliver for a Rowland; or, a cow pox epistle to the Reverend Rowland Hill. "Under the wing of Surrey Chapel." / [Benjamin Moseley].

  • Benjamin Moseley
Date:
1806
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Credit: An Oliver for a Rowland; or, a cow pox epistle to the Reverend Rowland Hill. "Under the wing of Surrey Chapel." / [Benjamin Moseley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    further shall be done in Vaccination, must be considered as a mere matter of experiment, and ought to be put under some restrictions, and prohibited, in such hands as yours. | You say, Rowianp, page 47, “‘ the Docror (meaning me) gives us to understand, that the Cow Pock Inoculation will turn us all into Fools.” RowLanp,—you did not want Inoculating ; and it was a very silly trick in you to transfuse any . ‘foolish matter into your veins; by vaccinating’ yourself so clumsily, as you say you did, page 44, en the back of your hand. It is to this operation, RownaNnp, more than o Dr. Lerrsom’s counsel, [attribute your Pam- ‘yhlet. The Cow Pox, you know | havealways said, makes strange. mutations in the mind, as well as in the body. [tis scarcely three months - since I, by mistake, paid you a compliment; which I have since learnt, was not due to you. But, Rowianp,—although I did advance a deposit, for the state of morals I supposed you were then in, you must remember, I qualified it, by insinuating, that [ conceiyed you would not long remain so; before | knew that you had Cow Poxed yourself, or had any intercourse with Dr, Lerrsom.—Had I known these things, there would have been no merit im my pre- diction. You see, RowLanp, how we Prophets find out matters. RowLaND,—you were never suspected of being a Cunning Man ;—how then did you know ‘that [had got all your old triend Moore’s rattle- traps, and conjurations ?—And that it was by the help of the Stars, that I found out all your Cow Poxing secrets ? Dro
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