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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    c o Baron, Life of Edward Jenner, London, 1838, II, p. 456; Storer, Sanitarian, March, 1889, No. 926; ibid., American Journal of Numismatics, July, 1894, p. 14, No. 747. [Pfeiffer, 1896, p. 3, No. 385.] Presented to Jenner by the surgeons of the British Navy. Its locality is now unknown. It is not, as Pfeiffer has sup¬ posed, a portrait medal of J enner. 2. Obverse. Bust, clothed, to left. Upon truncation : [T.R.] Poole 1809 No inscription. Reverse. Blank. Of pink wax upon colorless transparent glass; 82 mm. (length of bust). Storer, loc. cit., April, 1895, p. 128, No. 880. [Not given by Pfeiffer, 1896.] In the Library of Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. I know of it through Dr. F. P. Weber of that city. A gold medal was presented to Jenner by the Medical Soci¬ ety of London, at its anniversary dinner, March 4, 1804. It bore either upon its rim or the casket that contained it: E. Jenner M. D. Socio suo eximio ob vaccinationem EXPLORATAM Biographie Medicale, V, p. 574; Rudolphi, p. 81, No. 339 ; Kluyskens, II, p. 68, No. 2; ibid., Num. Jenn., No. 2; Duis¬ burg, p. 230, DCIX, 2; P. and R., p., 139, No. 386; Storer, Sanitarian, March, 1889, No. 927; ibid., Amer. Jour, of Num., July, 1894, p. 14, No. 748; Baron, loc. cit. Though mentioned by all these writers, its true character has remained undecided until it was lately ascertained by Dr. F. P. Weber of London that it was the John Fothergill medal of the society (Storer, Am. Jour, of Num., Oct., 1893, p. 35, and July, 1895, p. 6, No. 645). Its present locality is unknown. If the inscription were upon its casket it is possi¬ ble that it is the specimen now in the British Museum, as but one or two of these medals were struck in gold. [Pfeiffer, 1896, p. 3, No. 386, describes its bust as that of Jenner. It was not so, however, but of Dr. John Fothergill.] There exists a medallion engraving, with bust in profile to right, by J. B. Drayton, from life, and Anker Smith. Though drawn for the purj)Ose of a gold medal it was never struck. A centennial medal has just been issued at Bristol. 3. Obverse. Bust, to right. Beneath: Fenwick, Sc.F. Birm’m. Inscription: Edward Jenner, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. Ac. Born 17 May 1749. Died 26 Jan. 1823. Berkeley, Glostersh. Reverse. Within laurel wreath : May 14th, 1896. In com¬ memoration of the centenary of Dr. Edward Jenner’s First 'A Successful Experiment in Vaccination May 14th, 1796. Silver. 38 mm. Brettauer, Mittheilungen des Clubs der Munz-und Medail- len Freunde in Wien, May, 1896, p. 55.