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

  • Ring, John, 1752-1821
Date:
1816
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Credit: A caution against vaccine swindlers, and impostors / [John Ring]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a certain quarter, laid violent bands on them ; and conveyed them to a relation of the right owner. Dr. Walker's Fortitude. It is unnecessary to expatiate on all Dr. Walker’s cardinal virtues; but his justice and his fortitude, ought not to be passed over in silence. Of the former, perhaps, a sufficient specimen has been given ; or rather, more specimens than one. Of the latter it is not difficult to adduce an example; if any further proof is wanting, that he possesses this qua¬ lification also in no ordinary degree. What farther evidence, indeed, can be necessary, to prove that a man is brave, and endowed with uncommon forti¬ tude, who braves Heaven and earth, who disregards all the ties of honour by which society is bound to¬ gether, and bids defiance to all laws, human and divine? The present inquiry is of more importance than some people may imagine. Health, life, liberty, and property, are ail concerned. Liberty may ap¬ pear to have no concern in the matter; but surely that is not the case, while every barber-surgeon, apothecary, chemist, druggist, and other empiric, has the liberty of wielding a vaccine lancet, cutting up pocks and pustules, maiming and mutilating the arms of children, and inserting lymph, blood, pus, or sanies, as he thinks fit, after the example of his great leader and director, Dr. Walker.