Debates in Parliament respecting the Jennerian discovery : including the late debate on the further grant of twenty thousand pounds to Dr. Jenner : together with the report of the Royal College of Physicians of London, on the vaccine inoculation / with introductory remarks, by Charles Murray.

  • United Kingdom. Parliament.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Debates in Parliament respecting the Jennerian discovery : including the late debate on the further grant of twenty thousand pounds to Dr. Jenner : together with the report of the Royal College of Physicians of London, on the vaccine inoculation / with introductory remarks, by Charles Murray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    those valuable individuals, our soldiers and sailors, have been able to do their duty with the disease upon them, in the midst of one of the most glo- rious but fatiguing campaigns that ever was underr taken. With respect to the immediate motion of this day, I certainly shall say something; as, al- though the Report states the actual loss Dr. Jenner has sustained, yet other particulars, which bear very hard upon him, are not inserted. It is not merely giving up his practice in the country, which has been proved to have been very lucrative; it is not the loss of that fortune, which the best autho- rities have stated he might have gained to a cer- tainty, if he had kept it a secret: but it is the actual expenses which he daily incurs, by having promulgated this inestimable blessing, which I really think the hardest part of the case; for the very postage of the letters, both foreign and do- mestic, amounting frequently to ten, twenty, and twenty-five shillings a day, is really such a sum in itself, as no fortune would like to bear; an ex- pense which cannot be repaid, and which his own generous and benevolent intentions were the cause of. As to the remuneration which ought to be given in this case, I hardly know how to appre- ciate it. I have precedents in my hand, which state various rewards that have been given to inge- nious men, which I shall now read. [Paper read.] This last vote is only half of the sum constantly voted for the discovery of the longitude, which ift A3