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A. J. C. Skene. Dr. Pepper spoke strongly in favor of sani¬ 
tation, and preventive measures generally. “To Jenner,” he 
said, “is due thafextreme and rare credit of having devised 
the incalculably valuable scheme of close and patient obser¬ 
vation. without which great discoveries in science are a 
hopeless dream." “Jenner knew pathology.” said Dr. Welch, 
“and knew it well. His investigations were entirely of a 
scientific character, and no man in medicine has been less 
selfish in his work.” Bishop Potter’s remarks were espec¬ 
ially admirable. He closed them by saying: “The clergy 
have not been always the friends of science, but this is not 
the case in the matter of vaccination. The Congress of 
Geneva officially promulgated its theory and gave churchly 
assent to its practice. No fact in your history is more to 
your credit than this, that you have remembered this cen¬ 
tennial and have kept it. Certainly nothing in the history 
of medicine is more worthy of honor than Jenner’s great 
discovery, and whatever honors belong to medicine, none 
can surpass that due to the great vaccinator. The common 
indebtedness of all mankind belongs to him. He turned 
the ray of a new hope upon a timorous and disheartened 
world. ” 
In Germany there has been a festival. The Russian 
Society for the Preservation of Public Health has also, with 
the encouragement of the Emperor, celebrated the cen¬ 
tenary with much formality. In Berlin and in St. Peters¬ 
burg, and in Brooklyn, memorial medals of Jenner have been 
struck. The Brooklyn medal, as well as several other medals 
of Jenner, I now show you. At our opening meeting Dr. 
Turner exhibited to you several portrait engravings of 
Jenner. Through the courtesy of Deputy Surgeon-General 
D. L. Huntington, U. S. A., Curator of the Army Medical 
Museum and Library at Washington, who sent me for in¬ 
spection the entire collection of Jenner portraits under his 
charge belonging to Government, some thirty in number, 
I was enabled to exhibit them $t a recent meeting of the 
Newport Medical Society. Tonight, through the kindness 
