1802.) - 
Jenner, Appendix (No. 40) which con- 
firm the allegation contained in the Peti- 
tion, that he has not only reaped no ad- 
vantage from his difcovery, but that he 
has beena confiderable lofer by the perfe- 
verinz ‘attention which he his beitowed 
upon this one fubjeét, to the negleét of his 
other bafinels, without an opportunity of 
replacing himtelf in the fituation which a 
defire ot publifhing and diffufing more ex- 
tentively, and ettablifaing beyond the reach 
"of controverfy the practice itfelf, mduced 
him to quit. What his gains might pro- 
bably have been, if be had been folicitous 
to keep the fecret within his own practice, 
and that of his own immediate pupils, as 
far as medical men in great practice them- 
felves can form a conjectural opinion, may 
be coliected from the teftimonies expreffed 
in the Appendix (Nos. 35 to 43) in 
which no more than juficeis done to the 
liberality and public {pirit of the Peti- 
tioner, in confidering the propagation and 
xteniion. of this important diicovery, and 
in rendering it rather of univerfal urilivy 
to thy human race, than of emolument io 
himfelf. : 
Dr. Edward Jenner begged leave to fub- 
mit to the Committee, vouchers from cor- 
refpondents in various parts of the glohe, 
reterring toat leaft one hundred thoufand 
cales. Of thefe teftimonials Your Com. 
mittee have feiested the moft important, 
and annexed them in the Appendix to this 
Report. 
APPENDIX to the REPORT from the cOM- 
, MITTEE. * 
[The Evidence delivered by each perfon is 
numbered for the fake of reference: but 
we give them in the order thev are refer- 
red to in the Report, not in the order of 
the Appendix. | 
Dr. BLane, F.R.S. and one of the 
Commifficne:s of fick and wounded Ser- 
men, firlt heard of this difecvery abour 
ten years ago, but could not give credit to 
what feemed fo extraordinary and roman- 
tic, but fill he did nor deft from making 
inquiries, as fome of his children have fuf- 
fered much from the fmall pox. His in- 
quiries led him to fee how it was practiled 
in the Inoculation Hofpital, from whence 
lee came away fo much prejudiced again 
it, that he immediarely inoculated one of 
his children with the fmail pox. Soon 
after he found the opiniens he had taken 
up, to arife from the vaccine having mix- 
ed itielf with the variolous infeSion in this 
hofpital 5 and his turther enquiries ended 
in a_perfeét convistion of the merits of 
vaccine- inoculation, infomuch that he ino- 
Ceport of the Committee on Dr. Feuner’s Petition. 
amen, durin 
11 
culated another of his children with it, 
who went through the difeafe perfectly 
well, and has fince refitted the variolous 
in‘ection, which was attemp‘ed to be com- 
municated feventeen months after the 
other. He atiributes the difcovery folely 
to Dr. Jenner. Jn his official fituation he 
recommended to the Admiralty to have it 
tried on board tne fleet, which was done, 
and in the Kent man of wir all thofe who 
had received the vaccine-inoculation, were 
afterwards inoculated with variolous mat- 
ter, but without eff & 5 that the Reports 
of allthe Navy Surgeons were favourable 
to its Operations; remarking, that the 
g the diforder, were not inca~ 
pacitated from their uiual duties 5 and fo 
h ghiy did they prize this difcovery, that 
a mecting was hel at Plymouth, where a 
gold medal was fub/cribed for by them, 
and prefented to Dr. Jenneras its author. 
He laid before the Committee tcftimonials 
fron Egypt, figned by Lord Keith and: 
Genecal Hotchinten, in its favour; his 
own opiicn of its advanrages he draws 
from the comparifuon with the mortality 
oceafioned by the fimail-pox, which, by: 
computation, amounts to nearly one-’ 
tenth of the whole mortality in this coun-. 
try (95 out of every so00 deaths reported 
in the bills) 5 and that fince the introduc- 
tion of inocu a ion for the fmall pox, the 
mortality occafioned by that difeafe has 
increafed 5 that the number who die of the 
fmall pox annually within the bills of mor- 
taliry is about 2000, and in the United: 
Kingdoms it may be computed at 450003 
therefore if the vaccime was univerially: 
fabttitured, he thinks the fmall-pox mutt. 
ina fhort time be extinét; he has heard — 
of objest-ons and prejudices againit this 
method, but upen inquiry he has tound 
them grounded on fallacy and mifrepre- 
fencations 3; an inftance of which occurred: 
inthe tenth regiment of dragoons, where 
he found the fancets ufei to have been 
confounded with others armed with vari-: 
olous matter, which probably occahoned: 
the report of finail-pox infection having 
fucceeded the inoculation with vicciie-. 
matter. He gave two or ‘hrce other in- 
fiances equally injurious to the practice of 
vaccine inoculation, which were evidentiy 
founded upon mitapprehenfion. He be-: 
lieves mott of theic caies to have arifen 
trom the uling of matter taken at too late. 
a period of the puftule, which may equaliy 
happen in ineculating for the {mall-pox 
with virus taken at an improper period of 
maturation. (No. 4.) 
Dr. BRapbey, Licentiate of the Royal 
College of Piyfcians, Phyfician to the. 
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