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What opposite discoveries we have seen!

(Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.)

One makes new noses63, one a guillotine,

One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets;

But Vaccination certainly has been

A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets,64

With which the Doctor paid off an old pox,

By borrowing a new one from an ox.65