There is nothing enlivens a cottage fire-side, remote from the capital, so much as a newspaper. The Pilot of last night was particularly cheering, as it told me you had finished your academic labours and received your honours. Allow me to congratulate you, and to assure you how happy I shall ever be in hearing of anything that adds to your fame, your fortune, or to your general comforts.
The horrid fever ray eldest son has undergone, has left him quite a wreck; but I don’t despair of seeing him restored. I should be quite at ease on the subject, if a little cough did not still hang upon him, and too quick a pulse.
The Regius Professor of
Physic in the University of Cambridge, corresponding with the
contemptible editors of that miserable catch-penny Journal, the Medical Observer!!! What
phenomenon, I wonder, will vaccination next present to us? Atrocious and absurd
as this man’s conduct has been, there will be a difficulty in punishing
him, as he seems insensible to everything but his own conceit. However, he is
in able hands, and my excellent friend Thackeray (to
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Sir Isaac has certainly out-blockheaded all his predecessors. Pray tell me what is going forward. Alas! poor thing! He has been too daring, and I tremble for his fate. The scourge is out, and I don’t see that he erased a single line that was pointed out to him as dangerous. This venomous sting will produce a most troublesome reaction, and injure the cause it was meant to support. You know the pains I took to suppress it; but all would not do.
I have not heard anything of the new Vaccine Institution since my arrival here, except a word or two from Lord Egremont, who says the Ministry are so incessantly occupied with the affairs of Spain, that matters of a minor consideration cannot at present be attended to. I shall thank my friend in Russell Square, for the communications which, through you, he was good enough to make to me, but am of opinion that the proper time to object will be when anything objectionable rises up. Whatever is going forward either in the College or out of it, is at present carefully concealed from me. The proposition hinted at by Dr. S——, respecting an equal number from both Colleges to form the Board, I mentioned to Sir Lucas as the certain means of keeping off those jealousies which otherwise I thought would show themselves.
It affords me great pleasure to assure you that your
pamphlet is much liked
by all who have read it in this part of the world, and by no one more than by
myself. A few trifling alterations will be necessary
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With the best wishes of myself and family, believe me, dear Doctor,
