An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox. Second Edition. With (as published) Further Observations on the Variolae Vaccinae. WITHOUT THE THIRD PART (A Continuation of Facts and Observations Relative to the Variolae Vaccinae, pp 141-182). INSCRIBED BY EDWARD JENNER.

JENNER, Edward

Verlag: London: Printed, for the author, by Sampson Low, 1800.

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vii, 64 pp, 4 plates, 2 leaves, pp. [69]-139, [1, blank]. Contemporary cloth, rebacked with new cloth spine. "Birmingham Medical Institute" stamped on spine and front cover. Ink no. on verso of title page. Ink stamp of Birmingham Medical Institute on each plate. Ink correction to leaf K2* ("Advertisement" leaf): "Viccinae" corrected to "Vaccinae". Hole in 43/44, affecting one word on each page. Plates trimmed at bottom so text stating plates were engraved by William Skelton, after drawings by himself or Edward Pearce, is missing in part or completely. INSCRIBED BY EDWARD JENNER on first half-title: "For Henry Hickes Esq./ from his obliged friend/ the Author" (see photo). Inscribed on front pastedown: "W. F. Wade/ 16 Temple Row/ Birmingham/ from the library of the late Dr. Baron of Cheltenham/ the biographer of Jenner." Bookplate of Birmingham Medical Institute on front flyleaf, stating this copy was presented by Dr. Wade. LeFanu, A Bio-Bibliography of Edward Jenner 21, records this as one of seven inscribed copies of the second edition known to LeFanu. A remarkable association copy linking Jenner to his close friend and confidant Henry Hicks. This copy then passed to Jenner's friend and biographer John Baron. Baron, in his The Life of Edward Jenner, describes the long and close friendship between Jenner and Hicks, including Hicks's involvement in Jenner's writing and publication of the Inquiry, as well as Hicks's defense of Jenner after publication of the Inquiry and Hicks's own activity as a vaccinator. NOTE: WHAT FOLLOWS IS AN ABRIDGED DESCRIPTION. Abebooks limits number of characters allowed; I will email full description upon request. Jenner was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1789. It was his hope that the Royal Society would publish his Inquiry. When this did not happen, Jenner turned to friends, including Henry Hicks, to advise him on publishing his manuscript privately. Baron writes: "His friends Gardener and Hicks were also often consulted about it; and, finally before it was sent to the press it was accurately and faithfully scrutinised by a select number of his particular associates. . . . They all felt deeply interested in the investigation; they all saw that a matter of so much moment ought to be canvassed with the greatest care; for the dearest interest of their fellow-creatures, as well as their own affectionately loved friend, was involved in it. The party present on this occasion were Mr. Westfaling, Dr. Worthington, Mr. Paytherus, and Mr. H. Hicks" (I: 142). After the publication of the Inquiry, Jenner resumed vaccination: "he [Jenner] inoculated two of the children of his friend Mr. Hicks. . . . I dwell on this incident that I may, in the first place, record Mr. Hicks's confidence in the prophylactic powers of cow-pox, who had the merit of being the first gentleman that submitted his own children to the new practice. . . ." (I: 303-04; p. 324). In the Further Observations, Jenner describes the vaccination of the children of Henry Hicks: "Having been requested by my friend Mr. Henry Hicks, of Eastington, in this county, to inoculate two of his children, and at the same time some of his servants and the people employed in his manufactory, matter was taken from the arm of this boy [James Hill, pp. 131-32] for the purpose. . . ." Eventually Henry Hicks became a vaccinator himself, as described by Baron: "I have already mentioned Henry Hicks as his friend and counsellor: I have also mentioned how sedulously he promoted vaccination by first submitting his own children to it, and then diffusing it in his neighbourhood: I have now to attempt to commemorate his services in another line. He made himself perfectly acquainted with all the details of cow-pox inoculation; and about this time he brought this knowledge into practice. He commenced a series of inoculations; and evinced an accuracy and fidelity which would have done honour to the most enlightened physician. . ." (I: 330-31). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16470

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Titel: An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of ...

Verlag: London: Printed, for the author, by Sampson Low, 1800.

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