Information respecting the origin, progress, and efficacy of the kine pock inoculation, in effectually and forever securing a person from the small-pox / extracted from a treatise entitled "A prospect of exterminating the small-pox." Written in the year 1802.

  • Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846.
Date:
1810
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Credit: Information respecting the origin, progress, and efficacy of the kine pock inoculation, in effectually and forever securing a person from the small-pox / extracted from a treatise entitled "A prospect of exterminating the small-pox." Written in the year 1802. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The question was then put, that the words u Ten thousand Pounds” do stand part of the resolution; when the Commit¬ tee divided, Ayes 59—Noes 56——Majority 3. Two or three years after this, the Parliament of England voted Dr. Jenner the additional reward of twenty thousand pounds sterling, making in the whole one hundred and thirty three thousand, three hundred and thirty three dollars. From the New-England Palladium, Feb, 6, 1810. DR. JENNER. WHEN the Parliament of England voted Dr. Jennejr thirty thousand pounds sterling, they did not give it to him, as is commonly supposed, for being the first who took vaccine matter from the cow, and therewith inoculating a human be¬ ing ; for that had been done by various people, men and wo¬ men, at different times, before Jenner was born; but they gave him that reward for -inoculating from one human bein^ to another ; and for making no mystery of the thing, but for publishing it readily and clearly to the public ; for it was given into Parliament by the first physicians in London, as their opinion, that had Dr. Jenner chosen to keep the process secret, he might have became one of the richest men in the Kingdom. Dr. Waterhouse, having pursued the same line of conduct in America, induced the reviewers and the lit¬ erati in England, in France, and in Germany, to bestow upon him the honorable title of “ the Jenner of America.”—We learn that this fact has been amply proved to the Committee on Dr. Waterhouse's memorial to our Legislature, to whom a voluminous body of facts has been submitted. Dr. Water- house says in his memorial to the Legislature—“ Your memo¬ rialist kept nothing secret. He held nothing back from the pub- He} not even his own mistakes, when he conceived a knowledge •of them would be beneficial to the public.”