A HISTORY OF SCIENCE 



to induce the majority to give it trial ; passengers on 

 a burning ship do not hold aloof from the life-boats. 

 Rich and poor, high and low^ sought succor in vaccina- 

 tion and blessed the name of their deliverer. Of all 

 the great names that were before the world in the clos- 

 ing days of the century, there was perhaps no other 

 one at once so widely known and so uniformly rever- 

 enced as that of the great English physician Edward 

 Jenner. Surely there was no other one that should be 

 recalled with greater gratitude by posterity. 



