JENNER, Edward (1749-1823). Autograph letter signed twice ("Edw d Jenner" and, on address leaf, "Edw d Jenner M.D.") to Dr. Louis Valentin, Cheltenham, 10 September 1804. 4 pages, folio, seal hole catching portion of a few letters (center crease reinforced) . Docketed with an 8-line autograph endorsement signed by Valentin.
JENNER, Edward (1749-1823). Autograph letter signed twice ("Edw d Jenner" and, on address leaf, "Edw d Jenner M.D.") to Dr. Louis Valentin, Cheltenham, 10 September 1804. 4 pages, folio, seal hole catching portion of a few letters (center crease reinforced) . Docketed with an 8-line autograph endorsement signed by Valentin. JENNER GIVES A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF HIS ONGOING VACCINATION RESEARCH AND ANGRILY REFUTES AN "ABSURD" CRITIC Writing to Valentin to help effect the release of two Englishmen detained in Naopleon's France, Jenner says, "Altho' I take up my pen to write on a different subject, yet it will be impossible to me to address a letter to you without saying something on the cowpox, as you have proved yourself so zealous a friend to its progress. In our conversation on the subject, you might probably have heard me mention an impediment the vaccine pustule sometimes meets with in those who are recently afflicted with herpetic eruption. On this subject I have lately published a paper in the Medical & Physical Journal, & I hope it will meet your eye. It is a singular fact that these cuticular affections, which so frequently appear among the children of the poor, and which are evidently contagious, often prevent the vaccine virus from producing the correct action. The skin tho' apparently sound at the point of insertion is nevertheless so influenced by the disease as frequently to baffle all our efforts to produce a correct pustule, and consequently to secure the constitution from contagion of the smallpox. As soon as we have subdued the disease (which may readily be effected) we may then reinoculate, and the pustule will appear in its perfect state." He attacks a recently published pamphlet by "a Mr Goldson absurdly stating that vaccination was not a security against the smallpox for more than four years!!! What think you of this? For a little time the ignorant & the timid were terrified by Mr Goldson's assertions," but he thinks they ultimately redounded to the good, as Jenner was able to locate "several...persons who had been inoculated six & seven years ago & exposed them to the smallpox in its utmost state of contagion, but no one was in the least injured by this experiment." On the political prisoners in France, Jenner writes: "There is a young gentleman, Mr William Thomas Williams now at Nancy under your care on account of an indisposition, whose release from captivity I should be particularly happy to obtain..." Also, "Lord Yarmouth, the only son of my valued friend Lord Hartford, is with his Lady & family a captive in France....Pray, my dear Sir, exert yourself in this unfortunate business & sponge up the tears of weeping relatives & friends." He feels particular loyalty towards Lord Yarmouth, as he "was one of the first men of rank in this country who boldly, yet humanely, held up an example of imitation in suffering me to inoculate his child at the commencement of vaccination."
JENNER, Edward (1749-1823). Autograph letter signed twice ("Edw d Jenner" and, on address leaf, "Edw d Jenner M.D.") to Dr. Louis Valentin, Cheltenham, 10 September 1804. 4 pages, folio, seal hole catching portion of a few letters (center crease reinforced) . Docketed with an 8-line autograph endorsement signed by Valentin.
JENNER, Edward (1749-1823). Autograph letter signed twice ("Edw d Jenner" and, on address leaf, "Edw d Jenner M.D.") to Dr. Louis Valentin, Cheltenham, 10 September 1804. 4 pages, folio, seal hole catching portion of a few letters (center crease reinforced) . Docketed with an 8-line autograph endorsement signed by Valentin. JENNER GIVES A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF HIS ONGOING VACCINATION RESEARCH AND ANGRILY REFUTES AN "ABSURD" CRITIC Writing to Valentin to help effect the release of two Englishmen detained in Naopleon's France, Jenner says, "Altho' I take up my pen to write on a different subject, yet it will be impossible to me to address a letter to you without saying something on the cowpox, as you have proved yourself so zealous a friend to its progress. In our conversation on the subject, you might probably have heard me mention an impediment the vaccine pustule sometimes meets with in those who are recently afflicted with herpetic eruption. On this subject I have lately published a paper in the Medical & Physical Journal, & I hope it will meet your eye. It is a singular fact that these cuticular affections, which so frequently appear among the children of the poor, and which are evidently contagious, often prevent the vaccine virus from producing the correct action. The skin tho' apparently sound at the point of insertion is nevertheless so influenced by the disease as frequently to baffle all our efforts to produce a correct pustule, and consequently to secure the constitution from contagion of the smallpox. As soon as we have subdued the disease (which may readily be effected) we may then reinoculate, and the pustule will appear in its perfect state." He attacks a recently published pamphlet by "a Mr Goldson absurdly stating that vaccination was not a security against the smallpox for more than four years!!! What think you of this? For a little time the ignorant & the timid were terrified by Mr Goldson's assertions," but he thinks they ultimately redounded to the good, as Jenner was able to locate "several...persons who had been inoculated six & seven years ago & exposed them to the smallpox in its utmost state of contagion, but no one was in the least injured by this experiment." On the political prisoners in France, Jenner writes: "There is a young gentleman, Mr William Thomas Williams now at Nancy under your care on account of an indisposition, whose release from captivity I should be particularly happy to obtain..." Also, "Lord Yarmouth, the only son of my valued friend Lord Hartford, is with his Lady & family a captive in France....Pray, my dear Sir, exert yourself in this unfortunate business & sponge up the tears of weeping relatives & friends." He feels particular loyalty towards Lord Yarmouth, as he "was one of the first men of rank in this country who boldly, yet humanely, held up an example of imitation in suffering me to inoculate his child at the commencement of vaccination."
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