A caution against vaccine swindlers, and impostors / [John Ring].

  • John Ring
Date:
1816
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Credit: A caution against vaccine swindlers, and impostors / [John Ring]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nour of the medical profession, as well as individual character, should be supported ; and it ought not to appear to them, that the British Government had in any way patronized charlatans. This however, says the Editor of the Scourge, is no more than what has long appeared to all the rest of the world ; for no government on the face of the earth has ever patronized charlatans half so much as the Government of Great Britain. Witness the scandalous advertisements in every daily print; in every form, and in every place ; witness the swarms of charlatans throughout the whole wide-extended empire of Great Britain. It is, however, much to be regretted, if, accord¬ ing to the new philosophy, with which Dr. Walker and his associates are endeavouring to enlighten the world, both by precept and example, they cannot support the honour of the medical profession, and individual character, without turning unprincipled impostors. Well might Mr. Angerstein, who knew more of Dr. Walker than the rest of the Society, show a re¬ luctance to join him in his proceedings ; and de¬ clare, that the higher orders of people in this coun¬ try were at all times charitably disposed ; and both able and willing to support any laudable institution ; but they wished first to know, whom they were to draw with. W hen they patronized the Royal Jen- nerian Society, and the London Vaccine Institution, they little suspected, and I little suspected, that they
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