Edward Jenner
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 201 years ago |
Died | Berkeley |
Berkeley | |
United Kingdom | |
Residence | Berkeley |
Gloucestershire | |
Children | Edward Robert Jenner |
Catherine Fitzhardinge Jenner | |
Robert Fitzhardinge Jenner | |
Siblings | Mary Jenner |
Henry Jenner | |
Sarah Jenner | |
Stephen Jenner | |
Anne Jenner | |
Date of birth | May 17,1749 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Spouse | Catharine Kingscote |
Parents | Reverend Stephen Jenner |
Sarah Jenner | |
Books | Vaccination Against Smallpox |
An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae | |
The Origin of the Vaccine Inoculation | |
A Continuation of Facts and Observations Relative to the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox | |
Born | Berkeley |
United Kingdom | |
Education | University of St Andrews |
Date of died | January 26,1823 |
Nationality | English |
French | |
Place of burial | St Mary's Church, Berkeley, United Kingdom |
Grandchildren | Catherine Sarah Jenner Bedford |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 414571 |
Edward Jenner Life story
Edward Jenner, FRS FRCPE was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae, the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox.
'Vax' declared Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year
... According to the OED, this is due to English physician and scientist Edward Jenner s pioneering work on vaccination against smallpox in the late 1790s and early 1800s...
The anti-vaccination movement, grabbed Victorian England
... why you have a cheap and seemingly effective solution to vaccination - to tear apart and threaten society? An anti-vax website quoted, The city of Leicester: sanitation trump is the vaccination , as one of their 5 Historical vaccine scandals, The story begins in 1798 with the Gloucestershire doctor, Edward Jenner, a successful Test of the country-lore that a dose of relatively mild cowpox infection gave protection against smallpox...