The history and practice of vaccination / By James Moore.

  • Moore, James Carrick, 1763-1834.
Date:
1817
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Credit: The history and practice of vaccination / By James Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Edward, a younger son of the Rev. Stephen Jenner, Vicar of Berkeley, in the county of Glou- cester, was born in the year 1749. He received a good provincial education at Cirencester ; and being intended for the medical profession, was bound apprentice to the first surgeon at Sod- bury. About the year 1768, during his apprentice- ship, he learnt that there was a report, rife in the dairies, of a distemper named the Cow Pox, which infested the teats of milch cows, and in- fected the hands of the milkers, being some- times a preventive of the Small Pox. As milkers were often applying for remedies to cure fester- ing sores on their chopt fingers, Mr. Jenner had the opportunity of observing them ; and he was assured that they were acquired from the cows, who had similar sores on their teats. It was likewise a fact of public notoriety, that the peasants in that county, even when repeatedly inoculated, often resisted the infection of Small Pox. This singular circumstance, together with the foregoing report, made a con- siderable impression on his youthful mind. At the age of one-and-twenty, he went to Lon- don to prosecute his studies, and became pupil to John Hunter, who was rising into celebrity. This surgeon, endowed with an extraordinary •capacity, was then pursuing knowledge with ardour, and observing nature with the piercing 3