. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. this method was Edward Jenner (1749-1823), ofBerkeley, in Gloucestershire, who, therefore, is generallyknown as the Father of Vaccination. The son of aclergyman, he began early the study of medicine and sur-gery, and during his apprenticeship received from a milk-maid information of the protective power of cow-pox againstvariola, as established by popular observation. (Suttonand others had proved that inoculation of sheep-\)OX wasnot efficient.) This communication so struck Jenner asa
. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. this method was Edward Jenner (1749-1823), ofBerkeley, in Gloucestershire, who, therefore, is generallyknown as the Father of Vaccination. The son of aclergyman, he began early the study of medicine and sur-gery, and during his apprenticeship received from a milk-maid information of the protective power of cow-pox againstvariola, as established by popular observation. (Suttonand others had proved that inoculation of sheep-\)OX wasnot efficient.) This communication so struck Jenner asa means of affording protection to the whole human JENNER, THE FATHER OF VACCINATION. 227 race that the subject never afterward left his mind. In1770 he became a pupil of John Hunter, and when hecommunicated to him this idea the great surgeon said:Do not think; investigate! Accordingly he went toBerkeley and performed the little operation which hasmade him famous; and from 1778 until 1788 he commu-nicated to Sir Everard Home such observations as he hadmade. But the first vaccination was performed in 1796,. Fig. 35.—Edward Jenner, (From a steel engraving Ijy E. Scriven made from a painting by J. R. Smith.) upon a boy, with matter from the hand of a maid who hadcontracted cow-pox in milking. In 1798 he published hismemorable work, and afterward removed to London. Hedied full of fame and honor, in his native place, havingreceived rewards from the government amounting to onehundred and fifty thousand dollars, besides being made anhonorary citizen of the city of London. The subsequentwide-spread practice of the method, and the formation of 228 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. societies for the promotion of vaccination are matters ofrecent history. The first vaccinations in the United States were per-formed hy Doctor Waterhouse, Professor of Medicine inHarvard College, in 1800, upon four of his own transmission of humanized virus through the systemof the cow, and its subse
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