very liberal offers, his affection for his brother, John Jenner,

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My inquiry into the nature of the cow pox commenced upwards of 25 years ago. My attention to this singular disease was first excited by observing, that among those whom in the country I was frequently called upon to inoculate, many resisted every effort to give them the small pox. These patients I found had undergone

very liberal offers, his affection for his brother, John Jenner, induced him to reject a proposal which would carry him to such a distance from his native place. He accordingly determined to take up a permanent residence in Berkeley; and to content himself with prosecuting the natural history of his own country. Soon after this resolution was executed he was offered the degree of doctor of physic by the university of Erlington;-but, as the acceptance of the honour would have been incompatible with the discharge of his surgical duties, he was induced to decline the offer.

In a community, however, where uncommon talents are rightly appreciated and rewarded, a person who is naturally inquisitive and observant will, first or last, be elevated into notice. While Jenner was dining with a large party at Bath, some article was introduced which required to be heated by the application of a candle. A question immediately arose,-whether the heat would be imparted more effectually, when the substance was held at a little distance above, or when it was directly immersed in the flame. Jenner requested that the candle might be placed by his side; when he immediately thrust his finger into the flame, and suffered it to remain for some time, without any apparent inconvenience. He then held the same finger a little above it,-and was obliged to withdraw his hand instantly. This, gentlemen,' said he, ' is a sufficient test.' He received the next day a note from general Smith, with the offer of a place in India, which, in the course of two or three years, would have insured him an annuity of 3000l. The proposal was submitted to his brother; and non-acceptance was the result of the consultation.

Again, therefore, he retired to his beloved Berkeley, with a resolution to spend his life in the comparatively inglorious occupation of a country surgeon. About the year 1775, inoculation for the small pox, after the Suttonian method, was very prevalent in Gloucestershire: and it was at this eventful period that Dr. Jenner commenced those investigations which ultimately terminated in the discovery of the vaccine inoculation. The steps which led to the discovery are concisely and perspicuously detailed by his own hand, in one of the pamphlets at the head of this article; and lest we should vitiate or impair the record of so important an event, we shall adopt without abridgment the very words of the Doctor himself.

'My inquiry into the nature of the cow pox commenced upwards of 25 years ago. My attention to this singular disease was first excited by observing, that among those whom in the country I was frequently called upon to inoculate, many resisted every effort to give them the small pox. These patients I found had undergone