To crush the Perkinising faction.
“I tell you, these detested tractors,
The worst of Satan’s manufactures,
Will set themselves to supersede us,
Will even blister, cup, and bleed us;
“And they’ll be used as diuretics,
Cathartics, anodynes, emetics,
And will begin, before they’re done,
To tap for dropsy, cut for stone.
“The self-same metal, it is said,