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The life of Edward Jenner ... With illustrations of his doctrines and selections from his correspondence / By John Baron.

  • John Baron
Date:
1827
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The life of Edward Jenner ... With illustrations of his doctrines and selections from his correspondence / By John Baron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. THIS work has been composed from materials of the most authentic description, the whole of the notes and correspondence of Dr. Jenner having been put into my hands by his executors. My close and unreserved intercourse with him, and my inti- mate knowledge of his sentiments and habits of thinking on all subjects during the last fifteen years of his life, probably induced them to believe that I was not an unfit person to draw from such sources an accurate delineation of his character and opi- nions. | Many reasons, with which I need not trouble the public, would have induced me to shrink from the labours of such a work ; and nothing certainly could have reconciled me to the attempt had I not been influenced by the most sincere veneration for the name of Jenner, and by the conviction that the confidence with which he honoured me did afford me facilities for acquiring an insight into his feelings b
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