A Rowland for an Oliver, in answer to Dr. Moseley's Oliver for a Rowland, and to Mr. Birch; containing a defence of vaccination / [John Ring].

  • John Ring
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1807
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Credit: A Rowland for an Oliver, in answer to Dr. Moseley's Oliver for a Rowland, and to Mr. Birch; containing a defence of vaccination / [John Ring]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *5 The most respectable part of the world are cow* poxers; therefore, as Dr. Moseley’s credit has long stood very low with cow-poxers, it has long stood Very low with the most respectable part of the World. He denies that the smalbpox has been attended with more fatal consequences, since the introduction of inoculation, than before. As the fact, however, has been proved by the most authentic records, he will not raise his credit by denynig it; nor will he raise his credit by denying, that a person may have the small-pox twice. He says, Dr. Woodville never saw an instance of the kind ; but 1 have proved the contrary in the Medical Journal, by the attestation of more than one witness. Mr. Hill having declared, that he had little or no doubt but half of Dr. Rowley’s cases are false, Dr. Moseley resents this ; but I have given reasons in the Medical Journal for believing that half his cases are fal se, and the other half not true, by convicting him of wilful falsehood, when, if I had been wrong, he* and the rest of the chosen band, were in a state to contradict me, and to vindicate his assertions. With regard to the ox-faced boy, the state¬ ment brought forward by Dr. Rowley, and again brought forward by Dr. Moseley* though signed by his father, or some good friend for him, is false; and contrary to what his father gave to me, and afterwards to Mr. Moore in my presence. He at first tried to conceal from me, the circumstance of his having had the scrofula in his family ; till the sore in his other
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