Royal Jennerian Society, for the extermination of the smallpox, by the extension of vaccination : patronized by His Majesty, the Royal Family, His Majesty's ministers, members of both Houses of Parliament, the Hon. the East India Company, and the Corporation of the City of London : founded in 1803, and supported by voluntary contributions.

  • Royal Jennerian Society.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Royal Jennerian Society, for the extermination of the smallpox, by the extension of vaccination : patronized by His Majesty, the Royal Family, His Majesty's ministers, members of both Houses of Parliament, the Hon. the East India Company, and the Corporation of the City of London : founded in 1803, and supported by voluntary contributions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    become a matter of deliberation with the Legislature, and the pub- lic mind has become so extremely agitated on the furtive and bur- glarious method of obtaining them, as to attempt to lumber the burying-grounds with patent or iron coffins, for the securing the remains of their friends in the silent grave. It is important that the public should know, while their prejudices run so high against the mutilations of the remains of their friends, which royal corpses have been long subject to, that while the men filling the places in Hospitals of the highest .possible trust, acquit themselves so well towards the living, the Stewards of tlie Hospitals take care to secure the interment of the patients who die, however importunate the medical staff and the students may be to have them sent to the anatomical theatre or dissecting table. That the medical staff of a public Hospital hold the highest possible trust in the complicated fabric of Society, will appear evident, when it is considered that the lives and health of the working part of the community con- stantly fall under their care.* It belongs to the supporters of these charities to elect the medical officers to their important charge} and formerly, by favouritism, and the making of new subscribers, in- competent functionaries might be elected: in later times such legislative regulations have been adopted against irregular practi- tioners, that no combination of individuals, however numerous or wealthy, can bring in a candidate, pharmacian, surgeon, or physi- cian, who has not passed the authorized tribunals of Pall Mall, Lincoln's Inn Fields, or of the Pharmaceutic Hall, by Doctors’ Commons. On the formation of the Royal Jennerian Society, Dr. Jenner, by letter, expressed a wish that characters, so illustrious in the pro- fession, as the advocates of vaccination in St. Thomas’s Hospital, (terming them stars (ff the first magnitude,) might unite in the association j and he soon saw the benign rays of professional sci- ence, to the enlightening of the world to its good, beam forth from the rising orb. The most exalted rank, the most eminent talent, the most efficient philanthropy, gathered around it at home j and the nations abroad admired and acknowledged its excellence. A traveller through every country of Europe, the Count Lasteyrie, of Paris, a great supporter, in France, of Vaccination, of the Lancasterian System of Education, and of various other phi- lanthropic institutions, on being elected an Honorary Member, in a letter of reconnoisance to our President, the Duke of Bedford, well observed, on its general and powerful influence in the world, that its establishment had formed an era in the annals of Humanity. Much of the last Annual Report, prepared for every Governor by the Managers, had retrospective reference to the extensive services rendered to hu- manity by the Institution, in different parts of the