Royal Jennerian Society, for the extermination of the smallpox, by the extension of vaccination : patronized by His Majesty, the Royal Family, His Majesty's ministers, members of both Houses of Parliament, the Hon. the East India Company, and the Corporation of the City of London : founded in 1803, and supported by voluntary contributions.

  • Royal Jennerian Society.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Royal Jennerian Society, for the extermination of the smallpox, by the extension of vaccination : patronized by His Majesty, the Royal Family, His Majesty's ministers, members of both Houses of Parliament, the Hon. the East India Company, and the Corporation of the City of London : founded in 1803, and supported by voluntary contributions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ([■ ctd ' .3 m .ANNUAL MEETING of the GOVERNORS OF THE iSlojal Bffniurian ^octetj, HOLDEN AT Bond Court, Walbrook, on Thursday, February 5, 1829, JOINT PRESIDENT, DOCTOR LISTER, IN THE CHAIR. 'While Doctor Jenner was solicitously occupied in liis researches on Hie Cow-pock in the miry farms in Gloucestershire, the heretofore I'hysician of the Small-pox Hospital, Doctor nster, and the late Henry Cline, his colleague in St. Thomas’s Hospital, Southwark, applied oe matter which he sent theitt to town, and were assnred of its eflicacy hy repeated, i ihseqnent, inefifectual elTorts to produce ihe Small-pox on the patient to whom they had i'Ppited it. The Minutes of the last G-eneral Court were read and approved. The Minutes of the Board of Managers were read and confirmed. The Annual Report was read, approved, and ordered to be print- xid, under the direction of the Managers. iii d, rtiiS A its- REPORT. {t were an unpardonable breach of trust in a public harity, to subject the objects of it, without their iwn consent, to the experimental application of un- certain or hazardous remedies. The first application of Vaccination, the Great Prophylactic against the Small-pox, in our Metro- Dolis, which now diffuses consolation to every land, iwas made by Doctor Lister and the late Mr. Cline, the excellent friends of Doctor Jenner in private practice. Here they had the opportunity of exciting the cheering hopes of the relatives, as they after- wards confirmed their assurance of the protection being complete, although the wondering relatives bad not been able to detect any derangement of health in the subject during the process of vaccina- tion. This remark on the honourable conduct of medical characters holding public places of the highest possible trust, may be par- ticularly seasonable at a time when the question of their being duly supplied with anatomical subjects in their professional pursuits, has