An answer to Mr. Birch, containing a defence of vaccination / by John Ring.

  • Ring, John, 1752-1821.
Date:
1806
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Credit: An answer to Mr. Birch, containing a defence of vaccination / by John Ring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    A AN ANSWER, &C. 4 ^ A PERUSAL of* ttie dull and eccentric pamphlets • of Dr. Moseley, Dr. Rowley, and Mr. Birch, the three great opponents of vaccination, suggested the following parody of Dryden’s panegyric on Milton : I Three wights, in London, or in Dublin born, Our times.enlighten, and our age adorn. The first in quaintness of conceit surpass’d. The next in dulness, and in both the last: The force of nature could no farther go, To make a third—she join’d the other two. I When a man makes an awkward appearance in print, it is natural for his readers to conclude, that it is his first appearance on the stage of literature ‘ and that he is entitled to some indulgence, for any blunders he may happen to commit. Mr. Birch, however, cannot urge this plea, for he has ap^ .peared in the character of an author more than once; first anonymously, then in the form of a circular letter, since published in the Gentleman’s Magazine under his own name; and next in B