John Walker's reply to James Moore, on his mis-statements respecting the vaccine establishments, in the metropolis, and their officers or servants, both living and dead /[John Walker].

  • Walker, John.
Date:
1818
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Credit: John Walker's reply to James Moore, on his mis-statements respecting the vaccine establishments, in the metropolis, and their officers or servants, both living and dead /[John Walker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    J. W. In the preceding c Origin of this Reply ' on mis-statements, page 9- I have spoken of the en- viable self-complacency of James Moore, in sitting in judgment on others. Having since found time to glance again at his work, I find him to possess a still more unequivocal self-gratulation in sitting in judg- ment on himself. The Edinburgh Reviewers, in cri- tisising his Reply to the Anti-Vaccinists, page 1J, could only speak of its intrinsic merit. Eleven years having now elapsed since its publication, the author, in his sort of review of it, has not only the op- portunity of speaking of its merits, but also of its powerful effects; and 1 will now do him the justice to close the present Reply to him by the quotation of his own words, without pretending to find in them either mistake or mis-statement. On the contrary, I will rather beg leave to felicitate the friends of Vac- cination on his success in the use of ' the light of in- ternal evidence' in his own 'courteous way/ whereby Vthe poor ass himself never brayed more ;' and 1 in- deed the ami-vaccinists afterwards carefully shunned all mention of new diseases/ J. M. —a scrutiny was published of the writings of those authors who opposed Vac- cination.* Their arguments, facts, and theories, were all compared, and examined by the light of internal evidence: this confrontation they could not sustain, and the admission of every fact proved a sure, as well as a courteous method of destroying their credibility. Even the trans- mutation of the boy was freely granted: two * A Reply to the Anti-vaccinists, 1S06.