Genre:

Regular Feature, Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Vaccination, Discovery, Publishing, Invention, Photography

    Notes the controversy over whether William Shakespeare was vaccinated—a controversy caused by the discovery of a manuscript in which John Radcliffe recalled being told by a relative of his grandfather's nurse that Shakespeare owed his preservation 'from the dangerous and disfiguring malady then so rife in England' to a cow. Notes that this cow was subsequently 'treated with the greatest respect' and that facsimilies of the Radcliffe letter are to be reproduced by the 'chromophotolithotintotypoxylographic process'.