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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    without education, and destitute of principle.” Like that learned critic, I could also name several wretches, “ who have fattened, and are still fattening, by such jobs” No one is more sensible of the truth of this observation, than Dr. Walker. When he and his adherents assert, that His Majesty has honoured their Society with his express sanction, and condescended to become their Patron, they attempt a barefaced and palpable imposition on the public. They might as well pretend to the patron¬ age of the Great Mogul. When I proposed that we should solicit the patronage of the Royal Family, and that the Society should be called the Royal Jennerian Society, I little suspected that those honours would have been usurped by an illegitimate Institution. I should as soon have supposed, that they would fol¬ low the example of Oliver Cromwell, and usurp the. Crown. Plan and Regulations of the Bastard Royal Jennerian Society. The plan of the spurious Royal Jennerian Society bears some resemblance to that of the genuine one; there is, however, this difference, that Dr. Walker, who was only in a servile capacity, being resident Inoculator, and Secretary to the Medical Council, in the genuine Society, is Director in the spurious one. He is at present, indeed, the Dictator; but whether he will be allowed to be a perpetual Dictator, may well admit of a doubt.
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