The vaccine scourge, in answer to the calumnies and falsehoods, lately circulated with great industry by that extraordinary surgeon, Mr. Birch, and other anti-vaccinists.

Date:: 1808

Credit: The vaccine scourge, in answer to the calumnies and falsehoods, lately circulated with great industry by that extraordinary surgeon, Mr. Birch, and other anti-vaccinists. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$This blessing to stifle, when yet in its birth. And banish at once from the face of the earth. The Fiend, that all good and all virtue cries down. Made tools of a few wretched asses in town. Derry down, Thus freighted with falsehood, and ev’ry black art. That weakens the head, and debases the heart. They clamour against what the gods have bestowed, While each squirts his venom about like a toad* Derry down. Their books full of lies, and their papers and bills Stuck up in all places,, near Leake's Patent Pills^ Have oft been refuted, but always in vain. The dogs still return to their vomits again. Derry down* These fools, who reject the great boon Vaccination^ We ’ll leave to enjoy their desert—detestation \ And, the measure to fill of eternal disgrace. We 511 brand them as foes of the whole human race,$