1796-1896 : the memorials of Edward Jenner : address delivered at the centennial celebration held at Atlanta, Ga., May, 1896 / by Horatio R. Storer, M.D., hon. pres. Newport Medical Society, Newport, R.I.

  • Horatio Storer
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1896
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Credit: 1796-1896 : the memorials of Edward Jenner : address delivered at the centennial celebration held at Atlanta, Ga., May, 1896 / by Horatio R. Storer, M.D., hon. pres. Newport Medical Society, Newport, R.I. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    deceased. His list of medals comprised twenty-nine, only of vaccination. To the others, Pfeiffer and Ru- land, too much praise can not be given for their inde¬ fatigable labors. In their latest publication, 1882, they gave twelve medals of inoculation, and fifty-four of vaccination. That I have been able to materially add to these numbers, has been only through con¬ stant searching through several years, and a large amount of correspondence with numismatists. The list has been nearly finished, but ill health has pre¬ vented its completion, and indeed the hours of the present session have been so wisely parceled in advance that there would have been scant leisure for its consideration. I shall, therefore, now offer but a catalogue of the personal medals of Jenner alone. ENGLAND. 1. Obverse. Apollo presents a sailor who has been pre¬ served by vaccination to Britannia, who holds a civic crown bearing: jenner Legend: alba nautis stella refulsit. 1801. Reverse. An anchor. Above: georgio tertio rege. Be¬ low : spencer duce (Viscount Althorp, First Lord of the Admiralty and subsequently Earl Spencer.) Gold. Schlichtegroll, Annalen der gesammten Numismatik, I, p. 156; Rudolphi, Recentioris Aevi Numismata de Rebus Med- icis et Physicis Meritorum Memoriam Servantia, Berlin, 1829 (3d edition), p. 81, No. 338 ; Kluyskens, Des Homines Celebres dans les Sciences et les Arts, et des Medailles qui Consacrent leur Souvenir, Ghent, 1859, II, p. 68, No. 1; ibid., Nurnis- matique Jennerienne, No. 1; Duisburg, C. A. Rudolphi, etc., Denuo Edidit, Emendavit et Auxit C. L. D. D., Dantzic, 1862, p. 230, DCIX, 1; Pfeiffer and Ruland, 1882, p. 139, No. 385; ungen und Inoculationen, auf Jenner, Sacco und die Vaccination, sowie der auf Hungersnothe und andere Calamitiiten gepriigten Medaillen,” Weimar, 1880; and finally, with the authors’ names for the first time upon the title page, “ Pestilentia in Nummis. | Geschichte | der Grossen Volkskrankheiten | in Numismatischen Documenten. | Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medicin und der | Cultur.” Tubingen, 1882. [Since my paper was presented at the Atlanta meeting I have received still another and very interesting article upon the subject from Dr. Pfeiffer, entitled “ Zur Jenner feier | des 14 Mai 1896 | Medaillen, Portraits und Abbildungen. | betreffend | E. Jenner, die Variolation, die Vaccination | und die Vaccine.” | Tubingen, 1896. While it lacks a num¬ ber of the memorials I had cited, it gives several that were new to me. These I shall enter, giving due credit for each with an asterisk.]