Observations on Dr. Pearson's Examination of the Report of the Vaccine Pock Committee of the House of Commons, concerning Dr. Jenner's claim for remuneration / [Thomas Creaser].

  • Creaser, Thomas.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Observations on Dr. Pearson's Examination of the Report of the Vaccine Pock Committee of the House of Commons, concerning Dr. Jenner's claim for remuneration / [Thomas Creaser]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ '3 ] Jenner has no claim to the firft difcoverer and per- former* * of the new Inoculation; and if he be only the promulgator, I fee no propriety in his being exclu- fively rewarded.” The obfervation is fufliciently in- dicative of the liberal fpirit and the enlarged views of Dr. Pearfon’s correfpondents, and is a fpecimen of the temper, the argument, and the talents which are employed in difproof of Dr. Jenner’s claims. In the order as introduced by Dr. P. we are next prefented with the manufcripts of the late Mr. Nafli, furgeon, at Shaftefbury, as atteiled by his fon before the Committee of the Ifoufe of Commons. In Dr. Pearfon’s “ Examination,” thefe fimply rank with other matter of the fame kind, matter which I fhould mifcall by the name of evidence. I have it from the perufal of the minutes of the Committee of the Houfc of Commons, with which I have been favoured, that thefe papers were ufhered in by a moft threatening alfertion of Dr. Pcarfon’s, viz. “ That they would be found to contain every thing related by the pe- titioner, (Dr. Jenner) except his errors.” There is a prudent confideration or a cautious policy which generally leads men of reflection, not to exceed the force of events in the extent of prediction: but it is not thus with Dr. Pearfon’s annunciations. He introduces them in the full garb of importance, and - ■ —£=s-a r ~ * Dr. PearjTon might here have ufefullv corrected his friend’s V.guagc.