How the new practice was sneered at by some: how it was reprobated as a gross and mischievous imposition: how it was stigmatised with the appellation of the Gloucestershire bubble: and how the Inquirers were considered by many persons as fit candidates for a certain asylum: to say nothing of the villainous jests made on the occasion, are recent in our memory.[118]
FOOTNOTES:
[114] Baron’s Life of Jenner, vol. i. p. 360.
[115] Rees’s Cyclopædia, vol. 38. London, 1819. The writer of the article himself inoculated Woodville with the Grease.
[116] Mr. Cooke’s letter was reprinted in the Medical and Physical Journal, vol. i. p. 322. London, 1799.
[117] By and by controversy with the Smallpoxers waxed hot, and then the Cowpoxers averred that thousands of lives were annually lost by their practice.
[118] Examination of Report of Committee of House of Commons. London, 1802.