152 Life of Dr. Jenner. 



of those days, would not agree to more than ten. A vote 

 for ten thousand pounds in favour of Dr. Jenner, passed the 

 House on the 2d June ]802, by a majority of three. 



It is a remarkable circumstance, that very few real im- 

 provements in the practice of vaccination have been intro- 

 duced since the discovery was first announced. One of the 

 most important was the practicabihty of propagating the 

 disease by scabs, for which we are indebted to Mr. Bryce of 

 Edinburgh. Of the value of this addition to our know- 

 ledge concerning cow-pox, Dr. Jenner was fully sensible, 

 but he attached comparatively little importance to the test, 

 as it is called, recommended by that gentleman, and known 

 to vaccinators by his name. In this opinion we think Jen- 

 ner fully borne out, as we have never been able to convince 

 ourselves that that supposed test furnishes any evidence of 

 the degree to which the constitution is affected. This still 

 remains a great desideratum. A very effectual mode of 

 preserving lymph for the use of distant countries, was 

 invented by two German physicians, and is detailed at 

 p. 430. 



Honours began to pour in upon Dr. Jenner from the year 

 1801. The Dowager Empress of Russia sent him, in that 

 year, a ring set in diamonds. The Royal Society of Madrid 

 elected him an honorary member ; &c. &c. With a notice 

 of these blushing honours Dr. Baron's first volume con- 

 cludes. It is far from our intention to anticipate the con- 

 tents of that which is to come, but it may be satisfactory to 

 our readers, to have one or two dates, by way of filling up 

 the picture. In 1807 parliament reconsidered its former 

 vote, and granted to Dr. Jenner an additional sum of twenty 

 thousand pounds. In the following year, vaccination was 

 taken under the protection of government. The National 

 Vaccine Establishment was at first placed under the imme- 

 diate direction of Dr. Jenner, but difficulties ensued, and 

 Dr. Jenner resigned. During the latter years of his life, 

 he continued to devote a great deal of his time to the subject 

 of vaccination, but he did not publish anything of much 

 importance concerning it after the period to which Dr. 

 Baron brings down his life. He died at Berkeley, in Fe- 

 bruary 1823, suddenly, of apoplexy, in the seventy-fourth 

 year of his age. A statue has been erected to his memory 

 in his native county, but, hitherto, no adequate testimonial 

 of national approbation has been bestowed. An anxious 

 wish was expressed by many of the admirers of his genius, 

 that his remains should be deposited in Westminster Abbey, 



