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July 17, 1869
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July 17, 1869.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
21
BUMBLE'S MEDICINE AND SURGERY.
PUNCH'S FOURTH OF JULY ORATION".
Persons of education, out of Colney Hatch, and never having been | A great day through the Uuion is the Fourth day of July,
in it, or in any other such institution, Spiritualists to wit, are seriously ; When caution roar, aud bunkum's talked, and stars and stripes wave
attesting impossibilities, if there are any, iu the nature of things. But; niou '•
what of that ? Credo quia impombile est, as the Saint said, and was not; -For on that day, seventeen seventy-six, was signed the Declaration
shut up. Now, then, it may be seasonably mentioned that an eminent j Which proclaimed the Thirteen Colonies au independent nation,
surgeon, yet living, remembers having heard people, in the early days j A/r T^ , , .
of vaccination, declare positively that thev knew persons on whose ! Momentous Deed—whose signers did the bonds asunder pull
heads that process had developed cowhorns. It was not merely that ,\mxt go-ahead young Jonathan and stubborn old John Bull ;
they had been told so, and believed it. They vowed and swore they ! VP5 Vn n Ut gia? ? set,treedom * seal. aud crown>
had actually seen those who had been vaccinated, with horns growing KlNG w^ge 8 low-browed statue from its pedestal pulled dona,
on their heads. Are you sure they were mad ? For aught you know, ! And QQW almost a century has ma ^ r0und of years
were they not right _ :, u. , , Since amid jubilee and prayer, and strife of hopes and fears,
There are some, perhaps even now who can sincerely believe that; That momeutous Declaration was given to the world,
those people really saw what they said they saw, and were in nowise i Aud m bn hfc d tm broader°sho ws the flag then first unfurled,
out of their senses; but, on the contrary, very sensible people. And; b °
the British Medical Journal names two gentlemen who, very likely j Bold hands that would have rent it have met sharp aud sudden stav •
indeed, are quite capable of entertaining that belief:— | And Slavery's stain that dimmed it has with blood been washed a vay:
" At a recent Meeting of the Croydon Board of Guardians, while the subject j lts stripes suggest no scourges, its stars no night of wrong,
of the appointment of a public vaccinator was being discussed, Mr. Newman, j n eil may Declaration speech be proud—glad Declaration song,
one of the Guardians, tools: occasion to oppose the proposal. He believed, he . T . , , ,,, n , , ,
said, that it was a cruel and barbarous action to put poison into children ; and : %n irlstl ecli0 ot ttlat S0QS nia7 ranch have leave to raise,
he did not want a better proof of this than the number of children in the j £or correction of vain boasting, and chastening^ of sell-praise ?
union-house that developed the itch soon after vaccination. In this statement
he was supported by Mr. Coles, another Guardian, who asserted, on the
authority of the nurse, that there was the proof in the children themselves."
. Abjuring your allegiance unto the British crown,
There is really no reason whatever for doubting that the eruption To the powers of law and duty in allegiance you bowed down:
mentioned by the B. M. J. did, in fact, ensue on vaccination in the j Asserting rights of man, and ends of Government and rule,
Croydon Workhouse. We will be bound to say, we would bet any Yon claimed no right of mau to brag, of mobs to play the fool,
money, that it does so in a great many Workhouses. Croydon Work-.
house may, or may not, be exceptional as to the common conditions of; 'Along the wrongs done by your stepmother, Great Britain, was not this,.
the development of that disorder. Every boy will tell every other boy ■ Of making you uphold as right whate'er you had done amiss :
who has cut his finger that he will die after it. Of course Mr. New- Of branding as the deadliest sin in others, what in you
man and Mr. Coles have, as wise men, weighed that saying well j and . Is held venial if not virtuous, and claims praise, not biame, for due.
their idea of the consequence of vaccination is to be respected— j .
accordingly. ! *-ou oaQ ' °e independent ot the truth— ho we er you strive—
Medicine'and Surgery come by nature to Poor Law Guardians, such That sauce for Gander's sance for Goose—be the birds dead or alive;
as Messrs. Newman and Coles, and certain others to whose credit )Tbat « ia thaAlabamacase were wrong, rights can't be,
our British and Medical contemporary also relates the following ; When to work theLr wul m Cuba> filibusters are ielt tree.
anecdotes :— I you can>fc De independent—declare whate'er you will—
" At a recent Meeting of the Board of Guardians of the Holyhead Union, Of the great law that good feeling breeds good, ill-feeling ill;
one of the relieving officers called attention to the case of a pauper who was . While for civil war in Ireland you wish and work and pray,
said to have dislocated his shoulder four months ago and asked the Guardians Cau coinplam jf towards the South some English feelings stray ?
to send the man tor treatment to a bone-setter, it was thereon remarked by
Mr. Walthew, a Surgeon, one of the Board, that, if the case were one of
To tell what you claimed freedom for, seventy-three years ago,
What you can't be independent of,—declare yourselves, or no.
dislocation, the man ought to be placed under the care of the medical officer; ™ , ,
on which several of the Guardians objected to this proposal, one of them espe- ' OOuman .
cially asserting that medical men knew nothing of bones or their treatment." a. correspondent of the Times calls attention to the deplorable and'
tut w „ , • • | • c ■ i__. ill disgraceful fact that several of the finest trees in Kensington Gardens,
Mr Walthew, continuing his,^-ofe^ional remonstrance extracted | particu]arly five or sk uoble old Scotch firS; hareDbeen brutally
from the Chairman a decision that the Board could not legally pay a mJ ^ ^ the YjmM fchat_by ^ hauds ^ servants_fellea
hone-setter :— them ? He must be a ^ stupid feQer_
" On which a Guardian proposed that a subscription should be raised for _,_. •
the purpose."
r * a very sufficient reason.
This enthusiast, however, found among his fellows no seconder of a pOB tue grst tjme ^ tne memory of the oldest inhabitant of the camp
proposal to go so tar as to sacrifice money to their animosity against af. Wimbledon, the butts have been gravelled. The reason given by
regular practitioners; and ultimately ' it was determined that the LoRD Elcho, we understand, is the discredit " the Turf" has fallen
medical officer should report on the case to the next meeting. At the jut0
same institution :— —-
" A case came before the Board a fortnight previously which was reported A Double Meaning for Dis-Endowment.
to be one of tracture badlv treated, but which, on examination in the presence . , ,.; . ,1 „ , ^____ii-ui_ <«,];," „„~j
of the Board, Mr. Walthew showed to be a case of jomt-inhammaUon, no . seem to forget that he mon.syllable dis used in compo-
fracture or dislocation having occurred." sition has two meanings Ihere is the Latin dis, which means
separation; the Greek dis, which means doubling. In the case ot
The Holyhead Guardians, perhaps, thank Mr. Walthew less than the Bill for " Z^endowiug the Irish Church," the Commons employ
you think they ought to for his assistance in their deliberations on "dis" in the former sense ; the Lords, in the latter.
medical matters. In regard to those matters they probably share the____
sentiments of their two compeers at Croydon. The ideas of these
gentlemen about vaccination indicate them to belong to the denomination a disappointment.
of "MedicalDissenters," so calling themselves, founded by Morison, the Considering the richness of Canon Greenwell's finds in the
great original advertiser of the Universal Medicine. Freedom of medi- Barrows of t he North of England, very general disappointment has
cal conscience, medicine being obviously a mere matter of persuasion, lJeen felt at finding so little in the Cairns of the North of Ireland.
clearly ought to be respected much more than it has been by a too__
scientific legislature; but still there is one consideration which Mr.
Newman and Mr. Coles of Croydon, and doubtless al,so the Medical j " Coming Events," &c.
Dissenters of the Holyhead Union, might do well to perpend. Whilst , jN ^e mat,cu at Wimbledon the Commons beat the Lords. In the
it may be true that horns, as well as a cutaneous affection, have often coutest between these two bodies, expected to come off almost minie-
resulted from vaccination, it is equally true that, as testified by authen- , dMely at Westminster, many persons are hoping that the Commons
tic pictures, the consequences of taking Morison's Vegetable Fills have 1 vvdj a<raill victorious. Betting in favour of the Lower House.
in full as many instances been the most alarming eruptions of crops of___.
turnips, carrots, greens, radishes, and onions. In the meanwhile Kate- „,£,.. . „. ,
payers have to consider whether they act rightly in allowing the A Match at Lomg Odds.—The Spider against the illy, over the
medical arrangements of Unions to be directed by Medical Dissenters. I Beacon course, Newmarket.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
21
BUMBLE'S MEDICINE AND SURGERY.
PUNCH'S FOURTH OF JULY ORATION".
Persons of education, out of Colney Hatch, and never having been | A great day through the Uuion is the Fourth day of July,
in it, or in any other such institution, Spiritualists to wit, are seriously ; When caution roar, aud bunkum's talked, and stars and stripes wave
attesting impossibilities, if there are any, iu the nature of things. But; niou '•
what of that ? Credo quia impombile est, as the Saint said, and was not; -For on that day, seventeen seventy-six, was signed the Declaration
shut up. Now, then, it may be seasonably mentioned that an eminent j Which proclaimed the Thirteen Colonies au independent nation,
surgeon, yet living, remembers having heard people, in the early days j A/r T^ , , .
of vaccination, declare positively that thev knew persons on whose ! Momentous Deed—whose signers did the bonds asunder pull
heads that process had developed cowhorns. It was not merely that ,\mxt go-ahead young Jonathan and stubborn old John Bull ;
they had been told so, and believed it. They vowed and swore they ! VP5 Vn n Ut gia? ? set,treedom * seal. aud crown>
had actually seen those who had been vaccinated, with horns growing KlNG w^ge 8 low-browed statue from its pedestal pulled dona,
on their heads. Are you sure they were mad ? For aught you know, ! And QQW almost a century has ma ^ r0und of years
were they not right _ :, u. , , Since amid jubilee and prayer, and strife of hopes and fears,
There are some, perhaps even now who can sincerely believe that; That momeutous Declaration was given to the world,
those people really saw what they said they saw, and were in nowise i Aud m bn hfc d tm broader°sho ws the flag then first unfurled,
out of their senses; but, on the contrary, very sensible people. And; b °
the British Medical Journal names two gentlemen who, very likely j Bold hands that would have rent it have met sharp aud sudden stav •
indeed, are quite capable of entertaining that belief:— | And Slavery's stain that dimmed it has with blood been washed a vay:
" At a recent Meeting of the Croydon Board of Guardians, while the subject j lts stripes suggest no scourges, its stars no night of wrong,
of the appointment of a public vaccinator was being discussed, Mr. Newman, j n eil may Declaration speech be proud—glad Declaration song,
one of the Guardians, tools: occasion to oppose the proposal. He believed, he . T . , , ,,, n , , ,
said, that it was a cruel and barbarous action to put poison into children ; and : %n irlstl ecli0 ot ttlat S0QS nia7 ranch have leave to raise,
he did not want a better proof of this than the number of children in the j £or correction of vain boasting, and chastening^ of sell-praise ?
union-house that developed the itch soon after vaccination. In this statement
he was supported by Mr. Coles, another Guardian, who asserted, on the
authority of the nurse, that there was the proof in the children themselves."
. Abjuring your allegiance unto the British crown,
There is really no reason whatever for doubting that the eruption To the powers of law and duty in allegiance you bowed down:
mentioned by the B. M. J. did, in fact, ensue on vaccination in the j Asserting rights of man, and ends of Government and rule,
Croydon Workhouse. We will be bound to say, we would bet any Yon claimed no right of mau to brag, of mobs to play the fool,
money, that it does so in a great many Workhouses. Croydon Work-.
house may, or may not, be exceptional as to the common conditions of; 'Along the wrongs done by your stepmother, Great Britain, was not this,.
the development of that disorder. Every boy will tell every other boy ■ Of making you uphold as right whate'er you had done amiss :
who has cut his finger that he will die after it. Of course Mr. New- Of branding as the deadliest sin in others, what in you
man and Mr. Coles have, as wise men, weighed that saying well j and . Is held venial if not virtuous, and claims praise, not biame, for due.
their idea of the consequence of vaccination is to be respected— j .
accordingly. ! *-ou oaQ ' °e independent ot the truth— ho we er you strive—
Medicine'and Surgery come by nature to Poor Law Guardians, such That sauce for Gander's sance for Goose—be the birds dead or alive;
as Messrs. Newman and Coles, and certain others to whose credit )Tbat « ia thaAlabamacase were wrong, rights can't be,
our British and Medical contemporary also relates the following ; When to work theLr wul m Cuba> filibusters are ielt tree.
anecdotes :— I you can>fc De independent—declare whate'er you will—
" At a recent Meeting of the Board of Guardians of the Holyhead Union, Of the great law that good feeling breeds good, ill-feeling ill;
one of the relieving officers called attention to the case of a pauper who was . While for civil war in Ireland you wish and work and pray,
said to have dislocated his shoulder four months ago and asked the Guardians Cau coinplam jf towards the South some English feelings stray ?
to send the man tor treatment to a bone-setter, it was thereon remarked by
Mr. Walthew, a Surgeon, one of the Board, that, if the case were one of
To tell what you claimed freedom for, seventy-three years ago,
What you can't be independent of,—declare yourselves, or no.
dislocation, the man ought to be placed under the care of the medical officer; ™ , ,
on which several of the Guardians objected to this proposal, one of them espe- ' OOuman .
cially asserting that medical men knew nothing of bones or their treatment." a. correspondent of the Times calls attention to the deplorable and'
tut w „ , • • | • c ■ i__. ill disgraceful fact that several of the finest trees in Kensington Gardens,
Mr Walthew, continuing his,^-ofe^ional remonstrance extracted | particu]arly five or sk uoble old Scotch firS; hareDbeen brutally
from the Chairman a decision that the Board could not legally pay a mJ ^ ^ the YjmM fchat_by ^ hauds ^ servants_fellea
hone-setter :— them ? He must be a ^ stupid feQer_
" On which a Guardian proposed that a subscription should be raised for _,_. •
the purpose."
r * a very sufficient reason.
This enthusiast, however, found among his fellows no seconder of a pOB tue grst tjme ^ tne memory of the oldest inhabitant of the camp
proposal to go so tar as to sacrifice money to their animosity against af. Wimbledon, the butts have been gravelled. The reason given by
regular practitioners; and ultimately ' it was determined that the LoRD Elcho, we understand, is the discredit " the Turf" has fallen
medical officer should report on the case to the next meeting. At the jut0
same institution :— —-
" A case came before the Board a fortnight previously which was reported A Double Meaning for Dis-Endowment.
to be one of tracture badlv treated, but which, on examination in the presence . , ,.; . ,1 „ , ^____ii-ui_ <«,];," „„~j
of the Board, Mr. Walthew showed to be a case of jomt-inhammaUon, no . seem to forget that he mon.syllable dis used in compo-
fracture or dislocation having occurred." sition has two meanings Ihere is the Latin dis, which means
separation; the Greek dis, which means doubling. In the case ot
The Holyhead Guardians, perhaps, thank Mr. Walthew less than the Bill for " Z^endowiug the Irish Church," the Commons employ
you think they ought to for his assistance in their deliberations on "dis" in the former sense ; the Lords, in the latter.
medical matters. In regard to those matters they probably share the____
sentiments of their two compeers at Croydon. The ideas of these
gentlemen about vaccination indicate them to belong to the denomination a disappointment.
of "MedicalDissenters," so calling themselves, founded by Morison, the Considering the richness of Canon Greenwell's finds in the
great original advertiser of the Universal Medicine. Freedom of medi- Barrows of t he North of England, very general disappointment has
cal conscience, medicine being obviously a mere matter of persuasion, lJeen felt at finding so little in the Cairns of the North of Ireland.
clearly ought to be respected much more than it has been by a too__
scientific legislature; but still there is one consideration which Mr.
Newman and Mr. Coles of Croydon, and doubtless al,so the Medical j " Coming Events," &c.
Dissenters of the Holyhead Union, might do well to perpend. Whilst , jN ^e mat,cu at Wimbledon the Commons beat the Lords. In the
it may be true that horns, as well as a cutaneous affection, have often coutest between these two bodies, expected to come off almost minie-
resulted from vaccination, it is equally true that, as testified by authen- , dMely at Westminster, many persons are hoping that the Commons
tic pictures, the consequences of taking Morison's Vegetable Fills have 1 vvdj a<raill victorious. Betting in favour of the Lower House.
in full as many instances been the most alarming eruptions of crops of___.
turnips, carrots, greens, radishes, and onions. In the meanwhile Kate- „,£,.. . „. ,
payers have to consider whether they act rightly in allowing the A Match at Lomg Odds.—The Spider against the illy, over the
medical arrangements of Unions to be directed by Medical Dissenters. I Beacon course, Newmarket.