The present application to Parliament is a pretty good proof that Cowpox is beginning to be _blowed upon_. The Royal Jennerian Society _wants funds_. The subscribers have fallen off; and so application to the public purse has become necessary. _Why_ have the subscribers fallen off? Their _humanity_ has not waxed cold. It were slander, indeed, to suppose that. But I suspect that their _faith_ has waxed cold; and when that is the case, zeal soon slackens its operations, more especially when these operations consist chiefly in the expenditure of money. The fact was, that as vaccination failures multiplied, Jenner tried, _more suo_, to make a scape-goat of Walker, the Resident Inoculator of the Royal Jennerian Society. There was a dreadful row, and a secession of the better part of the members with Walker, who set up the London Vaccine Institution. Those who adhered to Jenner were not of the philanthropic and subscribing order, but they had political influence, and used it to get rid of their liabilities, first in obtaining a vote of £20,000 for Jenner, and second in the establishment of a National Vaccine Establishment with a subsidy of £3,000 a year. So far Cobbett in his _Register_, where he had no occasion to discuss vaccination again; but toward the end of his life, 1829-30, he produced a series of papers entitled _Advice to Young Men_, in which he reiterated and enforced his protest against the Jennerian imposture-- I contend [he wrote] that the beastly application could not, in nature, be efficacious in preventing Smallpox, the truth of which assertion has now been proved in thousands upon thousands of instances. For a long time, for ten years, the contrary was boldly and brazenly asserted.... But Smallpox, in its worst form, broke out at Ringwood, and carried off, I believe (I have not the account at hand), more than a hundred persons, young and old, _every one of whom had had the Cowpox “so nicely.”_ And what was then said? Was the quackery exploded? Not at all: the failure was imputed to _unskilful operators_: to the _staleness of the matter_: to its not being of the _genuine quality_. Admitting all this, the scheme stood condemned; for the great advantages held forth were, that _anybody_ might perform the operation, and that the matter was everywhere abundant and cost free.