THE DISCOVERER OF VACCINATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1923, Page 4

THE DISCOVERER OF VACCINATION.

1C0.000.000 LIVES SAVED. LONDON, January If 9. The centenary of the death of Dr. Jenner. the discoverer of vaccination, will be eelbratcd to-night at a meeting cf tlie Koval Society of .Medicine, when Sir William Hide-White, the president, will give an address on Jenner and his work. Among exhibits that will he shown at the Koval Society of .Medicine. 1. Wim-pole-streel. W., and at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Ola. Wigiik re-street, W.. are the Cloo gold box in which the certificate of the freedom of the C ity of London, was presented to Jenner, a letter in which lie told a friend that Parliament bad voted him .ti’O.hOO for his groat discovery, t; picture of Jenner vaccinating his eldest sun, and a hair from the t.iii of the tt iv which furnished the first tins: • f vaccine. Jell uer, whose discovery is said to have save I at least 100 000,090 lives has been honoured in Belgium. France. Italy, and Switzerland. Before vaccination the only protective treatment against, small-pox vs* iniicciiiation from a favourable case This evil method was introduced into England about 1720. The doctors mostly wen* against it; still it came into fashion. But tie di-cn-e was nieioly spread, liioeulali n fell into disrepute : «nd \v». soon declared illegd. Jenner was born in Berkeley, Klomvstershire. iii 17 I’.;. He was “instructed in the elements of -urgoiy and pharmacy’’ I.;. •i pra: titi; net* m.sir Bri-l'l. At “1 L went to London and for two years was Aoh ii J 5 timer’s resident pupil. Ho went into practice in Berkeley. Hr was ;i good surgeon and a burn naturalist; a hit of a poet, a hit of a musician, a lover of friendship, a good talker, a kindly and honourable gentleman : vv have a friend’s tb'serijit ion o! him in the early years of practice: •‘His height was rather under the iiiitld.lt* size, Ins person was robust, but active and well formed. In his dress lie w: , peculiarly neat, and everything about him showed the man intent and serious and well prepared to meet the .duties of his calling. 1 had heard so much of .Mr Jenner. of Ih-rkeley, that I had no small curiosity to see him. | 110 was dressed in a hint* coat ami yelI low buttons, buckskins, well-polished | jockey boot- with handsome silver .spur- | and he caivied a smart whip with a | silver handle. liis hair, alter the j fa-iiion of the tune-, was done.* up in a club, and la* wore a broad-brimmed hat."

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