An answer to Dr. Moseley, containing a defence of vaccination / By John Ring.

  • John Ring
Date:
1805
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Credit: An answer to Dr. Moseley, containing a defence of vaccination / By John Ring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. Jcnner acted wisely, in iollowing the ad- vice of his honourable friend, and able counsellor, ^'ho afterwards congratulated bim on bis sue- cess^ and complimented him so far as to say, that he had raked the very kennels, in order to bring forward evidence against himself.—This hint seemed necessary, lest any gentleman should again boast o(the opinion he gave before the House of Commons ; and glory in his shame. Dr. Moseley not only tells us, that, when ready for the press, he relinquished his design of publishing a second philippic against vaccina- tion; but that even now he prosecutes it with reluctance. Here again it is necessary to ac- quaint the reader, what it is that prevented those gentlemen, who see so much mischief in vacci- nation, from coming forward before, and dis- charging their duty.—The fact isj they have al- ready come forward once too often ; they have provoked the pen of satire by their folly, and still smart under the lash. This consideration has in some measure de- prived Dr. Moseley of the literary assistance of his great and good ally, the author of A Dressing for Lord Thurlow. That gentleman knows one thing, which is, that he who tries to give a dressing to another, may get a dressing himself. Tliis <z;ent]eman has lon«: been a fellov^-labourer of Dr. Moseley, in his attempts to prejudice the
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