Edward Jenner

Life's brevity urges us to heal.

Empiricism is the physician's best tool.

Joy in discovery surpasses all rewards.

Smallpox, thy end is nigh.

Observation trumps speculation every time.

The soul finds peace in service to health.

A single arm saves a thousand lives.

Humor in hardship: the pox meets its match in milk.

Legacy is measured in lives preserved.

Science illuminates the path from illness to vigor.

Persistence turns doubt into doctrine.

It is not, that I am afraid to die, but that I am afraid to die before I have done something for humanity.

The joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument of communicating so invaluable a blessing to my fellow creatures, was such as to obliterate every idea of personal danger.

The whole of my life has been devoted to the investigation of this subject.

It is a fact well known in this part of the country, that a disease of a very peculiar nature has occasionally been communicated from the cows to the hands of those who milk them.

The most beautiful discovery that has ever been made in medicine.

The grand object of my life is to discover the means of preventing the smallpox.

It is my most fervent wish that the vaccine inoculation may be extended to the whole world.

The cow-pox protects the human constitution from the infection of the small-pox.

The discovery of vaccination is the greatest triumph of medicine.