The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-03-21

r name Of its fury in my mnRh0od's heart.
Edward Jenner.
Edward Jenncr was born in Berkly, Glou
I cestershirc, England, Nav II, l140, nearly ~
years ago. His father was q wcll-to.do cler
Lyman, and Edward WAS brought up in com
fort and well taught. His father died when
he was only five years old; but his elder
brother, who was also u clergyman, took care
Of him, and was as good as father to him
Edward .Tenner was very fond of the country
and nearly all his life was spent in the neigh
borhOod Of the beautiful Vale of Gloucester
where he had the very good fortune to be
born.
While Edward Jcnner was a young man.
working and studying in a surgeons office
in a town called Sodbury, near Bristol, which
is the principal town in Glouccstcrshirc, he
used to hear a good deal of talk about the
small pOX. Thus disease makes great trouble
in our time, and when the disease is prevalent
there is hardly any sickness people are more
afraid of; but it is not 50 bad nowadays as
it was in Jcnner's time 1t was IL frightful
plague, and carried off in England alone, il
Is said, 10000 people every year. Kings died
OF II, queens, princes, prinCcsscS the rich and
poor the high and the low, the learned and
the ignorant When it appeared in the army,
it often slew more than the sword, and our
soldiers suffered most previously from this
pcstlience in the beginning of the War of In
dependence.
You may believe that many wise heads
and kind hearts were trying TO find out a way
to fight this disease, Thirty-one years before
Edward Jenncr was born, bright, witty lady,
with sharp tongue but kind hcart-Iady
WOrtley Montague, had found that in Tur.
/ rl,nr tl,a nall IA.
year, they had way of treating well people
so as to give them the disease, but in lighter
and less dangerous form than if they took ii
in the common way. Well persons were will
ing to he made i'll in this way, because they
knew that small poX very rarely comes to il
person more than once. This was called in
oculation, and Lady Mary, to show her faith,
had her own son inocuated in IT'S, and with
PERFECT success. This was though Is great
discovery, and so it was, for she had brought
to notice great principle; but something
was wantlng-no one knew what only moe
ulatlon did not stop the disease, nor greatly
check its ravages, tor soon it was raging as
bad rs ever
1t may have been fifty years after Lady
Mays brave experiment upon her son, that
while Edward Jenncr was an apprentice in
that surgeons Office at Sudbury, a Young
happening TO hear the medical men talking
about the small pox, she said that she was not
afraid OF catching it, for she had had the cow
pox. Little she knew what importan. words
she had spoken; and, indeed | suppose they |
were important because an observing, think |
ing, qulck-wited young man stood by to hear
them.
The COW poX is a disease Of the cruptive |
KIND, that shows itself on the udder, of cows,
and Is sometime, yought BY the people who |
are milking them. Il is generally mild |
disease, from which the COW suffers little. !
and the human being does not suffer serious |
~, being lightly Ill for only a few days. Be
side, II IS not communicated as the small pox |
is, by simply coming near the person who is !
i'll with that disease; the matter that is in /
the blistcrs on the cows uddcr must get of
itself under the skin of u human being. or be |
put under it before it can be- communicated. /
Now 1t seems 1t Lad been known for many !
years IN the grazing districts of England, that |
II THIS were done, and the human being had |
the COW poN, there was little or no danger for |
him from the small poN. And the farmers !
had been giving themselves the COW poX. and |
giving II To Their families, and thus keeping
the dreaded small poN at a safe distance, and |
nobody outside the farming distric, seems to !
have been the wiser for It. And respectable /
physicians, young and old, had been trundl. /,
ing about the country in their gigs, and look. !
ing wise, and shaking their heads over the
small poX, and never suspecting that the |
method of preventing it was all the time In
use under their very eyes.
How long this would nave gone on who
can tell, if thoughtful Edward Jenncr had not
listened to what the milkmaid said that morn
ing in the surgery? But it set him thinking
in his slow, steady, earnest way; and the idea
once seized, that here was the long desired
prevention, he never los; sight OF il.
DR. Jenncr made no secret of his great dis
covcry-trcd to get no patent for it,-but free
~ gave 1t To the world. The Government,
however, rewarded him handsomely, giving
him 10000 in 1902, and 100000 I'VE wears
later, in 1901 But he did not care for money,
and he could not wor!, for fame, So he lived
quietly in his pleasant country home, amid
ms old friends and The old scenes, until his
sudden peaceful death in February, 1923, in
the seventy fourth year of his ago, Few men
have lived SD happily, or have done So much
good, Yet ii Is fifty years after hi. death, and
not in his England, but IN PARKWAY Italy, !
that gratitude to his memory i spoken Of in |
a statue
Since this discovery at vaccination the ter /
rors of small poX have nearly disappeared, |
and with good nursing. intelligent physicians |
are not much afraid nt Il. In many countries |
the government ubliges every person 10 be |
yaCcinated, and those who cannot pay doc |
tor are vaccinnated free If charge at the pub /.
lie dispcnsarics'- AicholaA for March.
EDn'S CAHGoLIC TrocaE-.-Amung the Va
rioas remedies for Cough, none enjoy higher /
reputation thnu EDIY', { NEBoLIC TRoCuEs. This |
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