This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. LIFE AND LETTERS OF EDWARD JENNER. Edward Jenner was a native of Berkeley, in Gloucestershire. He was born in 1749, and was the third son of the Rev. Stephen Jenner, M.A., Vicar of Berkeley. Jenner's father had been tutor to a former Earl of Berkeley, who had a great regard for all the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. LIFE AND LETTERS OF EDWARD JENNER. Edward Jenner was a native of Berkeley, in Gloucestershire. He was born in 1749, and was the third son of the Rev. Stephen Jenner, M.A., Vicar of Berkeley. Jenner's father had been tutor to a former Earl of Berkeley, who had a great regard for all the family. In the Berkeley manuscripts, published by Thomas Dudley Fosbrooke in 1821, it is remarked that the foundations for Jenner's subsequent investigations on the subject of protection from Small Pox, were probably laid in an early period of his life. He was eight years of age when he was put under the preparatory regimen for inoculation. This lasted for six weeks, during which time he was bled, purged, kept on very low diet, and dosed with "a diet drink to sweeten the blood." After this "he was removed to one of the then usual inoculation stables, and haltered up with others in a terrible state of disease, although none died." By good fortune, Jenner escaped with a mild attack. Such is the incident on which Fosbrooke felt justified in making the following comment: -- "It is, without superstition, a noticeable incident in a biographical account that the misery endured in the Small Pox process should have laid the foundation for the extermination of the disease, and it is strongly indicative of a philosophical bias in the character. It exhibits impression accompanied with reflection, and a view to the removal of the evil. Whereas common man takes such incidents as usual inevitable occurrences, feels irritable, swears stoutly, and then forgets." Shortly afterwards, Jenner was sent to school at Cirencester, where he stayed half a year; but his health not being reinstated, he was placed with a private tutor. The effect of the preparation and...
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