An appeal addressed to the calm reflection of the author of the Critical Review : on 1. abusive language : 2. ambiguity and embarrassment : 3. espionnage and detraction : 4. the Jennerian discovery : with letters to the authors of the Monthly review and British critic / by John Coakley Lettsom.
- John Coakley Lettsom
- Date:
- 1803
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Credit: An appeal addressed to the calm reflection of the author of the Critical Review : on 1. abusive language : 2. ambiguity and embarrassment : 3. espionnage and detraction : 4. the Jennerian discovery : with letters to the authors of the Monthly review and British critic / by John Coakley Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1 termination is yet to come; but we have ample materials for the fubjefi:. (How noble and manly to carry enmity be]07id the giaze !) We firft of^ fended him, by recommending a mean of pre- ferving from infsdlion, which might in his opi- nion encourage draui drinking ; (that is^ drinking fpoonfuh of brandy^ and then evading the having [aid fo). We know tht many have been prefei'ved from fevers by it (alas I hozv many more, have fallen viclims to it!) ; and believe that it will not; •prove injurious (many believe and well know ths contrary), except where a flrong propeafity pre- vails (and zvhere it does not already prevail, fuch, Jags advice will have the effe3), which would feek;^ for other motives were this not offered (it is then^ more culpable to -point cut any addiiional incentive to, dram-drinking). This method has done more fer- vice (has been the fource of nun to health and moral-) than the abfurd analogical thermometer (which, if not inflru^ive, is iiiriucent)^ which ad- mits of no application but what might have been offered in a few words (it difcourages dram-drink' ing, one of the greatejl evils in Society). The fecond offence was laughing* (this is the third Jit of laughter, two ^aroxyfms having occurred * Thefe grave Critics^ from their own Barrative, are very prone to fits of laughter. My ufual pradice, on receiving a Review^ istoperufe, in the firft place, the laft page. In the Critical](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21064209_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
