Information respecting the origin, progress, and efficacy of the kine pock inoculation, in effectually and forever securing a person from the small-pox / extracted from a treatise entitled "A prospect of exterminating the small-pox." Written in the year 1802.
- Benjamin Waterhouse
- Date:
- 1810
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Information respecting the origin, progress, and efficacy of the kine pock inoculation, in effectually and forever securing a person from the small-pox / extracted from a treatise entitled "A prospect of exterminating the small-pox." Written in the year 1802. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON Dr. TENNER'S PE¬ TITION, JUNE 2, 1802. 4 A » ‘ * rfi , 7 * i (I' ADMIRAL BERKLEY said “ As to the remuneration, which ought to be given in this case to Dr. Jenner, I hardly know how to appreciate it. I have precedents in my hand, which state various rewards that have been given to inge¬ nious men, which I shall reaq. [Paper read] . This last vote is only half of the sum constantly voted for the discovery of the longitude, which in every point of view I certainly shall rejoice in, and gladly see the reward bestowed upon it, al¬ though we circumnavigate the globe very well without it. But great as that discovery is, I really cannot look upon it in any view to be compared with this of Dr. Jenner’s, which is unquestionably the greatest discovery for the preservation of the human species ever made. It is firoved, that in these united kipgdoms alone, 45,000 persons die annually of the small-pox. Are the exertions of that man who puts a stop to this mortality not to be rated higher than the discovery of the longitude, by which not a single life is saved ? The num¬ ber saved here is 40,000 ; but throughout the world what is it ? Not a second is struck by the hand of time, but a victim is sacrificed at the altar of that most horrible of all disorders, the small-pox. I will put it in another point of view—sup¬ pose it was proposed in this House, to reward any man who saved the life of a fellow-creature with ten shillings ; I should be laughed at for the smallness of the sum ; but small as it is, I should be contented with it ; for if the statement of 40,000 deaths be true, and this discovery prevents it, Dr. Jenner would be entitled to 20,000tpounds:per annum. I shall there¬ fore move, that a sum not less than 10,000 pounds be grant-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30795394_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
