Identifier: illustratedbiogr00sava (find matches)
Title: Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Savage, Charles C., 1820-1907
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: Buffalo, Phinney & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tory andgeology (the latter then a new study) varied and lightened his daily duties. Apaper, in which he gave an account of the habits of the cuckoo, from manyyears observation, procured him the honor of being elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society. But little was previously known of the habits of this singularbird. Dr. Jenner also frequently contributed valuable original papers to twomedical societies to which he belonged. He is said to have enlarged so fre-quently upon the cow-pox that at one of these societies his medical brethrenprotected themselves by jocosely putting an interdiction on the subject, treatingit as a forbidden topic, as they would have done a dogma in polities or theolo°gy. These details of Jenners life bring us to the question in connection withwhich his value to the world at large is now so well appreciated. The small-pox is propagated by .nfection. In the year 1717, Lady MaryWortley Montagu, who was then at Constantinople, where her husband wa* EDWARD JENNER. 393
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Portrait of Edward Jenner. 394 EDWARD JENNER embassador, nad her son inoculated with the virus of the small-pox. The prac-tice had long been known in Turkey, and it was found that the disease pro-duced artificially was less violent than the casual disorder. In 1721 mnocula-tion was tried in England on seven criminals, and a few years afterward, thechildren of the royal family were innoculated. Innoculation, however, neverbecame anything like universal, because, though in many cases the diseaseappeared in a milder form, yet its fatality was not abated to so great an extentas had been hoped, and the rate of mortality, before inoculation was known,and after it was practised, did not differ so materially as to offer a sufficient in-ducement voluntarily to encounter the disease. The circumstance which ledJenner to direct his attention to the cow-pox has already been noticed. Thisdisease makes its appearance on the animals udder, from which the milkerstake the infection. Similar vesicles ar

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