Edward Jenner God for the good which he has made me the instrument of conveying to my fellow creatures." However, his contemporary Rabbi Israel Lipschitz in his classic commentary on the Mishna Tiferet Yisrael wrote that Jenner was one of the "righteous of the nations," deserving a lofty place in the World to Come, for having saved millions of people from smallpox. In 1979, the World Health Organization declared smallpox an eradicated disease. This was the result of coordinated public health efforts, but vaccination was an essential component. Although the disease was declared eradicated, some pus samples still remain in laboratories in
Royal Edward (1796 ship) then renamed her. Though volumes of "Lloyd's Register" and the "Register of Shipping" give a capture year of 1796, she does not enter "Lloyd's Register" before 1798. She sailed as a West Indiaman before entering into the slave trade. First slave voyage (1799-1800): Captain Thomas Bushell sailed from England on 4 September 1799. She gathered her slaves at Bonny Island, and arrived at Kingston, Jamaica on 14 July 1800. She had embarked 432 slaves and she disembarked 316, for a loss rate of 8.3%. "Royal Edward" left Jamaica on 18 October and arrived back at Liverpool on 23 December. She