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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![for his talents has increafed. (No douht hut the Critical Reviewers, influenced b^ envy, mujl be com- petent juc'ges !!!) We have fufficiently defended ourfelves, (in -what page?) ; nor will any in- ve{9:ives (not one having been adduced), nor any infinuations of his feeble voice, feeble indeed ! (this feeble voice has appalled the Oiiic- into deadly Jilence)y draw from us another word (from fear or incapacity to anfwer). In the caufe of Science we will fpeak boldly (and in that of defaming'private chara£ier); and, when we again find him poach- ing in other grounds (Science is ejieemed an open field, and to defend reputation is private ground)^ we will, as we have done, expofe him. (The pub lick and other Reviewers fay the Critical Reviewers have expofed themfelves, Retrofpect^ p. 4—8, and Se£l. I. p. ig.) Mr. Creafer's pamphlet has jufi: reached us (and probably that of Mr. Hicks), and will be noticed in our next (was it fof). At- tacked as we are on all fides, (w:o commenced the attack on others, and became partisans to decry the charaSler of Dr. Jcnner, and the importance of his dfcovery?) we have flill, like the porcupine (an harmlef, inrffenfivt\ irritable creature), quills for every affailant. (T.ljey require new pointing, to make them enter imus t^ in cute.) [The words in Italics between parentliefes are not in the Critical Review ^ but are introduced by the Appealer to elu- cidate the original,] SECTION](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21064209_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
