Dr. Edward Jenner invented the first vaccine (the smallpox vaccine) in 1796. He discovered that people infected with cowpox were immune to smallpox and proceeded to test his discovery by ...

Dr Edward Jenner was responsible for the first hydrogen balloon flight in Gloucestershire in 1784.

On this date in history: In 1643, King Louis XIV, who would be known as "The Sun King," became ruler of France at the age of 4. In 1796, Dr. Edward Jenner, a rural England physician, tested his ...

Dr. Edward Jenner created the first vaccine in 1796 against the smallpox virus. One of the deadliest pathogens at the time, it is estimated to have killed more than 300 million people.

Dr. Edward Jenner invented vaccines because of an observation he and he alone made. You see, milkmaids were renowned for their beauty. At a time when smallpox was endemic and was scarring the faces of ...

Nearly a hundred and seventy-one years ago "matter was taken from a sore on the hand of a dairymaid" by Dr. Edward Jenner, who then inoculated it onto the arm of a healthy eight-year-old boy ...

Vaccines have revolutionized the way we preemptively protect against disease. The concept of vaccination was first demonstrated by Dr. Edward Jenner in the 19th century who found that exposing an ...

ON January 26, 1823, Dr. Edward Jenner, the discoverer of protective vaccination against smallpox, died in his home at Berkeley—a village of Gloucestershire—where he had lived long and ...

Dr. Barbara ten Brink’s During the Pandemic with Edward Jenner will be presented at the 2022 Texas Book Festival, November 5-6, alongside other sought-after masterpieces of the literary industry.