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].

  • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
Date:
1804
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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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    r 10 % merits; and, were my opinion of any avail with the publick, I would chearfully acknowledge, that the perufal of your pages has afforded me more general information than any other volumes with¬ in the compafs of my reading. After this conceffion, I truft, that you will not imagine, that this addrefs refults from any previ¬ ous bias againft you; and, in the prefent inftance, whatever may be my feeling, I hope to approach you in language equally difpaffionate and candid. I am fenfible of the advantageous ground on which you (land. Your reputation as learned bodies has long been acknowledged; and your opinions, in great meafure, determine thofe of the publick, on every literary and controverfial fubjefl. As an in¬ dividual, therefore, of little importance, I fhall be charged with rafhnefs and temerity, for at¬ tempting to ftruggle againft fo mighty an hoft; but, however unequal to the conteft, a confciouf- nefs of having afted upon the bafis of Truth, under the motives of promoting Publick Good and Private Happinefs, gives me a confidence that the fall will be broken, and an honourable retreat gained, without being crufhed to atoms by a combination of literary defpots. In the firft paragraph of your attack, for you immediately unmade your batten/, not with a bril¬ liant fire, but with a contumelious fneer, you ob¬ serve, on my cc Obfervations on the Cow-pock,” Dr. cc