. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. ssionfrom the patients who had been inoculated with thatlymph, and whence the present system of so-called vacci-nation—the greatest blessing of modern times. Jenner, of course, was opposed ; fools do not even believein vaccination now, and great was the battle for, andagainst, in the medical profession, and many were thebooks written pro and con. Vaccination Vindicated,Ed. Jones ; A Reply to the Anti-Vaccinists, Jas. Moore;The Vaccine Contest, Wm. Blair; Cow Pock Vacci-nation, Rowland Hill ; Birch against Vaccination, Wi
. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. ssionfrom the patients who had been inoculated with thatlymph, and whence the present system of so-called vacci-nation—the greatest blessing of modern times. Jenner, of course, was opposed ; fools do not even believein vaccination now, and great was the battle for, andagainst, in the medical profession, and many were thebooks written pro and con. Vaccination Vindicated,Ed. Jones ; A Reply to the Anti-Vaccinists, Jas. Moore;The Vaccine Contest, Wm. Blair; Cow Pock Vacci-nation, Rowland Hill ; Birch against Vaccination, Willan on Vaccination, &c., &c. Gillray could not, of course, leave such a promisingsubject alone, and he perpetrated the accompanying illus-tration. Here Dr. Jenner (a very good likeness) is attend-ing to his patients—vaccinating, rather too vigorously, onelady—the lymph, in unlimited quantity, being borne by aworkhouse boy, and receiving his patients who are ex-hibiting the different phases of their vaccination. As arule, they seem to have taken too PERKINSS TRACTORS. 389 A quack, who flourished early in the century, far betterdeserved the caricaturists pencil than Jcnner, and hegot it. The illustration on this page represents anAmerican quack, named Perkins, who pretended tocure various diseases by means of his metallic tractors—operating on John Bull. The paper on the tableis the True Briton, and it reads thus: Theatre—deadalive—Grand Exhibition in Leicester Square. Just arrivedfrom America the Rod of ^sculapius. Perkinism in all
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