1805.] 
us, my re{pected friends, have not thus fyvin- 
pathized with the tears of forrow, and there - 
by mitigated the inonrnfal agonies of dif- 
trefs?> Who as there anon gt 
‘Adam, whovhas not born the fighs of grief, 
Aud wept with thofe that weep? We have 
here no comiwon canfe ‘for our. concern: 
the tribute of our tears is the Ja& that we 
eanofer to the merits of the man !—the tri- 
Lute of our refoect is due tu his public cha- 
ratter—the tribute of weneration and ap- 
plaufe isthe debt we owe to his fame! It 
is with affecting delight we conteiuplate the 
merit of our departed friend, and réview his 
eminent fervices fince his introduétion ‘to this y estonia 
. fervations and improvements, which tended. 
humane Infitation ; and. they feem to have 
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reflected back the honour which they caft 
upon each other. As Patrons of this houfe 
ot mercy you have revered his ‘kill, and 
dily appreciated his exertions in its caufe : 
you have feen the energies of his mind de- 
yoted to its-extenfion; and the fruits of his 
beneficial improvements lave —tranfmitted 
its name to _reniote climes. His qualifica- 
tions as a phytician, and his merits as a man, 
were confidered fourteen years ago hy the 
ainple patronage hs received at his frit in- 
troduction to the office which his ‘decerfe 
has now vacated. His tudies and -refearches 
in the feience-of medicine were then called 
forth into’ new action, for taey were made 
fubferviert’ to the: caufe in which he hed 
thus engaged, and formed a confiderable 
part_of iis’genéral prattice.” His mind wil- 
« lingly devoted itfelf to the folfiiment of his 
engacement, by not only conducting if 
dical departinent, but by alto taking the fu- 
pervifion and - direction of its ‘dome fic 
houtehold the regulations which his care 
and. vigilance have. intredaced, remain as 
monuments of his hill, and -as tefimonies 
of his paternal re 
his introduction to this ofice, he began the 
compilation, of which only the firf part has 
appeared, of a Hitery of Inoculation; 
Which ought to conflitute a leading feature 
of his literary labours, as it proves how 
deeply the defion was iinpreffed upon his 
mind, of fulfilling tie extent of his duty by 
the mo% attentive invetigatiop, wherein no- 
thing misht be left unexplored which could 
coutribute to clucidate or promote the’ ob- 
jeets of his fituation. Amnougft his literary 
labours, which afordéd no fmall aflitance to 
4is ‘profeiiion, and reputation to hinifelf, 
and which offers a fnrther tefimony how 
‘deeply every part of the medical fcience was 
within the {cope of his attention, was his 
work ‘on Medical Botany—an accurate de- 
. Hnpation of the fciehce of plants, and 
ufeful and pleafing inquiry into the vege- 
table kinedontr here he explored the forms 
~and natures of the 
~ “Living herbs, beyond the powers 
Or botanifs to number up their tribes.” 
J TrossoNn. 
© “Montety Mae, No, 130, 
Eulogy tn Dr. Woodvilte. 
ail the fons of 
gard. Five years after 
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« Whilf the mind of. Dr. Woodville was 
thus ardently engaged in: &udies which -en- 
larged “his awn {phere of knowledge, .aivd 
fecured to him the well-earned honours of 
profeffional reputation, it will excite no fur- 
prife to find him zealoufiy. engaged in the 
difcovery and ‘adoption of Vaccine’ Inoce- 
lation. A difcevery fo fortunate for man- 
kind, and which fo inmedtately affected the 
advancement of this Luttitation; could not 
‘fail to-attragt his vigvance, and to prefs for 
lis mature inveftioation. “iis its:coue pro- 
eveded, he was enabled from his pecntiar 
office, and was urged from his pecaliay bene+ 
volence, to communicate many effential ob- 
to methodife the difcoyery, and to puih its 
new-born light upon the world, to remove 
the fulpicions of fear, and to promote and- 
mature the bleflings of fecurity. After. the 
minute® experiment, and the mot: unequi- 
vocal teftinionies of its fueccefs, it: was to 
our departed friend that this Infrtution 
clalins the honour Of its introduttion mto 
“general practice in the metropolis; and, as 
one of the branches of the efablithment, 
to Nave been inftraumental, fuperadded to 
the fubjects of its former fanie, in conveying 
comfort and-fecurity to more than feventeen 
thonfand perfons daring the lat fix years 5 
anamber which, in addition to thofe which 
have received the fame benefit from other 
locieties, and.from the lberel-exertions 6f 
other inedical. men, will live to teach their 
children, and their children’s:children, to 
blefs the namie of Woodville, when they 
blets the name of Jenner. -What let cha- 
‘ratterized his medical genius, was the foh- 
dity of his sconceptions,- the eaution vof his’ 
neafures, and the prudence which prevented 
their-adoptien until he had afcertained their 
fina! effeéts :--it may without exaggeration 
be affirmed, that there are few men Who | 
prefent us with fuch inefimable leffons in 
the ftudy of public utility. But lis exer- 
tions and bis fame were neither limited by - 
the narrow circuit of thefe walls, which now 
_hold his filent remaims, nor even by the ex- 
panded boandaries of the ipetropols, hot 
yet by the fhores which gird our United 
Kingdom ; his, reputation firetehed to thany 
‘or mot of the States of Evirope, te the Pro- 
‘vinces of Ametica, and to the Colonial Bta- 
hlifhments in the Eater: and’ We®ern 
World;—from all thefe patts his various 
corréfpondentes, and particularly the ear 
_ heft defre with which his pretence was foli- 
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cited at Patis,’ during the late Confelthip, 
‘and granted by the Hritith Government, 
“prove the ardour with which ‘his opinions 
‘were fought and efteemed; to théfe he freely 
imparted the refult of his juignient, and the 
correct information of his pratticd : and ‘if 
‘fuch an intércourfe difufed the euaratter 
ef his own talénts; it alfe carried along with 
it the fame of this national Intitution to 
the rethoté comérs ‘cf tie globa—Glorions 
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