The Beauties of the Edinburgh Review, Alias the Stinkpot of Literature

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 Excerpt: ... pdx," says, " Mr. Ring has collected from every publication, in every country, the most important facts respecting the vaccine discovery, its practice, and progress; to which is added, his own experience. He has happily contrived to engage the mind by pleasure, while he fills it with clear and instructive ideas." Speaking of the disasters at Petworth, occasioned by the rashness and ignorance of certain practitioners, who disseminated variolous instead of vaccine matter, he says, "See the whole related in Ring's excellent Treatise on the Cow-pox," In the same work, p. 18, he affords ample proof, that the elucidation of the subject, confused as it was by the writings of Dr. Woodville and Dr. Pearson, was no easy task. He says, Dr. Jenner observes, in one of his letters, that he " should certainly flatter himself too much, did he conceive that a perfect knowledge of vaccination could keep pace with the rapid progress which it was making in the world, The vaccine lancet is not to be trifled with." Again, in a letter dated March 4, 1801, he says, "Dr. and Dr.--1 have, in many of their writings, confused the matter greatly. Is it to be wondered at, that gentlemen, who hastily take up a subject, with which they are but imperfectly acquainted, should, in presumng to elucidate, create confusion?" Dr. Wall, in a letter dated Oxford, March 29, 1802, says, "Sir, I ought long ago to have thanked you for your obliging present of the First Part of jour Treatise on the Cow-pox; but a great variety of eugagements prevented me. I have been extremely pleased with the perusal of your impartial history of this invaluable discovery, and your firm and manly defence of it against calumny and detraction. Accept, Sir, my thanks for the exertions which you have made in this great ca...