An appeal addressed to the calm reflection of the author of the Critical Review : on 1. abusive language : 2. ambiguity and embarrassment : 3. espionnage and detraction : 4. the Jennerian discovery : with letters to the authors of the Monthly review and British critic / by John Coakley Lettsom.

  • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
Date:
1803
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Credit: An appeal addressed to the calm reflection of the author of the Critical Review : on 1. abusive language : 2. ambiguity and embarrassment : 3. espionnage and detraction : 4. the Jennerian discovery : with letters to the authors of the Monthly review and British critic / by John Coakley Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3. GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, Vol.LXXIL p. 44a. <« WITH an a6live mind, ardent in the purfuit of whatever may tend to the benefit of the whole bumaq race j and with an heart impregnated by the warmth of the Torrid Zone, which gave him birth ; this benevolent difciple of ^fcuhpius thus pours forth his unvarnifhed, unpremeditated exo'dium, After the infertion of the Preface, and an ana- lyfis of ihe Contents, the Critic adds, All thefe obje6ts, it will readily be perceived, are highly deferving of attention; and on fome of them we may hereafter enlarge. Among thofe more eipecially to be diftinguiHied are. Dr. Lett- fom's very hand fome and judicious eulogy on Dr, Jenn-^r, for ' the greateft difcovery in antient or modern Hiftury :'—his Hints refpeefting the fe- male character, * deduced from examples in real life, w^here he has taken great pains to reftore the diamond of female innocence to its genuine luftre and value ;'—md his golden inftrucftions ' to Mafters and MijftrelTes refpedling Female Ser- vants/' 4. EU-