Well might he be weary! He does not say so, but neither does he make any reserve in favour of vaccination; and, after seventeen years’ trial of it, the old physician must have included it in his cry of Vanitas Vanitatum!
FOOTNOTES:
[225] Baron’s Life of Jenner, vol. i. p. 442.
[226] “It was Dr. Lettsom who first sent the Vaccine Lymph across the Atlantic, and consigned it to the fostering care of his friend Dr. Waterhouse.”—Pettigrew’s Life of Lettsom, vol. i. p. 121. “Dr. Waterhouse at length succeeded in getting some Cowpox matter from Dr. Haygarth of Bath, who forwarded it from Bristol.”—Baron’s Life of Jenner, vol. i. p. 386.
[227] Baron’s Life of Jenner, vol. i. p. 440.
[228] Pettigrew’s Life of Lettsom, vol. iii. p. 405.
[229] As Dimsdale advised, the inhabitants of a village or district were inoculated with Smallpox simultaneously, so that all being infected none should be unwillingly infected!
[230] Baron’s Life of Jenner, vol. i. p. 387.