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13 pp. Recent 3/4-leather and cloth. Very Good. Work no. 1 is INSCRIBED BY EDWARD JENNER: "Sr W. Farquhar Bt./ With the authors bes[t]/ complimen[ts]." Jenner's inscription is a little trimmed on its right edge. First Edition, second issue. "In the second [issue] the word 'eruptions' on p. 11, line 2, is keyed by an asterisk to a footnote 'Herpetic Varieties' (LeFanu, A Bibliography of Edward Jenner, 2d ed., no. 98, p. 82). "Jenner expanded the hints, which he had sent to Alexander Marcet in 1803 [LeFanu no. 90], into an article of six pages in the August 1804 issue of the Medical and Physical Journal [LeFanu no. 96]. This important statement contained his first public recognition of failures of vaccination. He also advocated re-inoculation, mentioning that he had already advocated it in his Instructions 'some years back' [LeFanu no. 75] . . . . Jenner had the article reprinted as a pamphlet at Cheltenham (1806) [offered here]. . ." (LeFanu, ibid., p. 81). "Jenner recognized herpes, which produces its own confusing 'spurious pustules', to be a primary inhibitor of the vaccine virus, and cautioned medical practitioners to be especially careful when vaccinating people with skin diseases. This paper first appeared in Vol. 12 of the Medical and physical journal (1804); Jenner revised it slightly for its publication as an independent pamphlet [offered here]" (Norman 1171). Bound with: 2. JENNER, Edward: Facts, for the Most Part Unobserved, or not Duly Noticed, Respecting Variolous Contagion. London: Printed by S. Gosnell, 1808. 17 pp. Work no. 2 is INSCRIBED BY EDWARD JENNER: "Sr W. Farquhar Bt./ from his obliged humble/ the Author." LeFanu, A Bibliography of Edward Jenner, 2d ed., no. 103, p. 83. "Jenner returned to the defence of his proposal to revaccinate, in cases where the first vaccination failed, in the pamphlet Facts. . . [offered here]. From cases published in Further Observations and in A Continuation Jenner illustrated the impossibility of total protection against the recurrence of smallpox, or its infection after inoculation. . . . He quoted two cases of smallpox in utero without effect on the mother; a third case was added on an inserted leaf in 1809 [present in this copy]" (LeFanu, ibid., p. 83). Bound with: 3. JENNER, Edward: A Letter to Charles Henry Parry, M.D. F.R.S. &c. &c. on the Influence of Artificial Eruptions, in Certain Diseases Incidental to the Human Body, with an Inquiry Respecting the Probable Advantages to be Derived from Further Experiments. London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, 1822. 67 pp. Ink note (partly trimmed) in vertical margin of p. 4. Stain in lower blank margin of pp. 61-67. LeFanu, A Bibliography of Edward Jenner, 2d ed., no. 132, pp. 98-99. "Jenner's last book . . . summarized the observations of a lifetime on counter-irritation by means of emetic tartar ointment, and discussed the physiological principles on which the application acts" (LeFanu, ibid., p. 96). Seller Inventory # 16291
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