An expostulatory letter to Dr. Moseley, on his Review of the Report of the London College of Physicians on vaccination / By M.T.C., M.B., F.L.S. [i.e. Sir T.C. Morgan].

Thomas Charles Morgan

Date:: 1808

Credit: An expostulatory letter to Dr. Moseley, on his Review of the Report of the London College of Physicians on vaccination / By M.T.C., M.B., F.L.S. [i.e. Sir T.C. Morgan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$obtained (to use Admiral Berkeley’s words) from the very kennels of science. \ ou ask if the Fellows of the College know o what the origin of the cow-pox is ? In my turn, let me ask you if you know the origin of small-pox ? But the tree is known by its fruit.-—You would think it very strange, if some of your noble patients were to inquire your birth and parentage, before they trusted you with their pulse; and, I should think, you would be little solicitous about the vin- tage of your wine, provided it be agreeable to the palate and grateful to the stomach. Indeed, indeed. Doctor, this is one of the most futile of your objections. You say (p. 12.) that you believe inocu- lation from the horse’s heel has never been practised either on the cow or human subject; thereby clearly proving how little you have read of your opponent’s works. Let me in- form you, that Mr. Loy, of Whitby, in York- shire, published his experiments on this head, and they are decisive: Dr. Sacco has done the same: all your ingenious conjectures therefore must now cease. You proceed in your 13th page, to an enu- meration of 44 tumours, ulcerations, green £e discharges, rank itches, scald heads, iti- Cf veterate corrosions, distorted joints, and$