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was stripped of its malignancy, and Death was made to 

 lialt in the midst of his revelHngs. 



We read that " in June 1798, being satisfied with 

 the result of his experiments, he resolved to lay them 

 before the public. He transmitted his manuscript 

 to a correspondent who was in the confidence of 

 Sir Joseph Banks, and requested that it should be 

 laid before him, not doubting that it would soon be 

 printed in the Philosophical Transactions. Jenner 

 had already contributed several articles to that cele- 

 brated collection ; and as none of his former papers 

 on subjects of mere philosophical curiosity had been 

 rejected, he naturally expected that an essay promul- 

 gating a discovery of vast utility would be favourably 

 received. But the perusal of his experiments produced 

 no conviction ; and he received in reply a friendly ad- 

 monition that, as he had gained some reputation by his 

 former papers to the Royal Society, it was advisable 

 not to present this, lest it should injure his established 

 credit ! This advice, though given with the best de- 

 sign, was neglected with the happiest consequences ; 

 for although disappointed in his favourite mode of 

 ushering his discovery into the world, he was confident 

 that his work required no patronage ; and, therefore, 

 after the addition of a few experiments made in this 

 interval, he sent to the press his Inquiry into the Causes 

 and Effects of the Variolco Vaccince, a Disease clisco- 

 iiered in some of the western Counties of England, par- 

 ticnlarJi) Gloucestershire, and knozvn by the Name of the 

 Cow-Pox. 



" The title was unattractive, and the style unadorned; 

 yet this short treatise, from a provincial physician, 

 quickly excited general attention : for Jenner's name 



