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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    [ 8* ] of the edifice which they would fain raife in honour of the deity of their own praife. I fhall follow this Reviewer hut little further,—as where he fays, “ Dr. Jenner having darted the fub- jeCt and purfued it fomewhat carelefsly, left it and his refidence, feemingjy fplenetic and angry.” Had the mod irafcible expredions of human feeling been wrung from Dr. J. by the blundering torturers of his difeovery, he might have been judified by the feelings of outraged truth $ but no fuch fenfations are depifted in any part of his written works, and by rhefe alone that part of fociety who are unac- quainted with his perfonal and internal character can judge. To thofe who are converfant with thefe, no defence will be needed of his philofophic moderation. The Reviewer concludes with obferving, in allu- fion to Drs. Pearfon and Woodville, rhat their la- bours u are fo important and beneficial, they have placed a fubjeff incumbered with difficulties and con- tradictions in a point of view fo clear, forcible, and fcientific, that they cannot fee, without a little indig- nation, praifes and rewards drikingly exclufive,” * Were thefe a fyliable of jud foundation for thefe aimings at defert, it would be well; but <c there’s the rub.” In lieu of the removal of difficulties whole exidence I have not been able to defery, they have impofed thofe of their own formation, and are afterwards irritated by the radiance of the truths