An apology, for differing in opinion from the authors of the Monthly and Critical Reviews; on 1. Literary communications. 2. Variolous and vaccine inoculation. 3. Dr. Jenner's discovery of vaccine inoculation. 4. The means of preventing febrile contagion. 5. The establishment of charitable institutions / [John Coakley Lettsom].
- John Coakley Lettsom
- Date:
- 1803
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An apology, for differing in opinion from the authors of the Monthly and Critical Reviews; on 1. Literary communications. 2. Variolous and vaccine inoculation. 3. Dr. Jenner's discovery of vaccine inoculation. 4. The means of preventing febrile contagion. 5. The establishment of charitable institutions / [John Coakley Lettsom]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![an opinion I would by no means entertain of them. As I made the firft attack on the authors of the Critical Review, it might be fuppofed that they would infliCl the moft fevere chaftizement in the afperity of recrimination, and I was prepared to receive the fharpeft prick of their pen ; but, their unprovoked attack on Dr. Jenner can only be at¬ tributed to the envy which fuperior merit too - often excites. Thofe who know the private cha¬ racter of Dr.j enner, and can appreciate the impor¬ tance of a difcovery which entitles him to the gra¬ titude of an admiring world, will read with ftrong difapprobation the contumelious reflections of thofe Critics in their XXXVIth volume, pp. 197. 199. Every one muft know that the few cafes re- **' corded by Dr. Jenner might have been ob- ferved while running. The original fad was known [by whom ?], and the application only was required, which every medical man muft fee would confume but a very moderate portion of time — no talents, but eye-light—no men- 66 tal exertion, but common attention. Dr. Jen¬ ner, indeed, reflgned his praCfice on this pub¬ lication, and came to London. He might as well have done fo on the publication of his paper on the natural hiftory of the Cuckoo, and expecfted a national remuneration. We u can truly fay, that had the fubjeCt been left as it was by Dr. Jenner, the doClrine would have found 6 6 i ( 66 6 6 66 66 66 €6 66](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30795060_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
