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[James?] Beresford : [On vaccination]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'On vaccination'; Text [prose followed by verse] = 'A Mr Stewart writing on the Cowpax talks/ gravely of a most horrible case of vaccination/ viz, of a child who in consepquence of it, ran upon/ all fours, bellowing like a cow and butting/ like a bull thus reallizing (says the author/ who quotes the above) the apprehensions of/ the author of Vaccine Phantasmogoria and who exclaims/ O Mosely thy books mighty phantasies rousing/ Full oft make me quake for my heart's dearest treasures/ ...' [total = 2 x 4 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine      Print: Unknown

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