The life of Edward Jenner, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., physician extraordinary to the King ... with illustrations of his doctrines, and selections from his correspondence / by John Baron.

  • Baron, John, 1786-1851.
Date:
1827
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Credit: The life of Edward Jenner, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., physician extraordinary to the King ... with illustrations of his doctrines, and selections from his correspondence / by John Baron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and motives, by which I have been enabled to speak without hesitation or doubt on all those points that most concerned either his conduct as a man, or the nature of his doctrines. Notwithstanding these encouragements, I cannot but own that I have entered upon this undertaking with a degree of anxiety in which I can scarcely expect any to sympathize. I trust that I am not deceiving myself when I say that nothing of a per- sonal nature prompts this avowal. It is of moment that a true and faithful portrait should be dravm of so distinguished an individual; that those, who have admired and extolled him as a great benefactor of bur race, may know that on many other grounds he was worthy of their highest regard and warmest affection. It cannot be expected that there should be an uniformity of sentiment on momentous ques- tions of a professional or scientific nature, but I shall ever have cause to lament if, through any defects of mine, the kindness, the rectitude, the consistency, and the unextinguishable ardour and devotedness of Jenner in a glorious cause do not shine conspicu- ous in every act of his long and laborious life. On a knowledge of these things my pretensions as his biographer chiefly rest. If I have failed in imparting that knowledge I shaU have a cause