Written by a French-speaking immunologist and translated into English, the book deals less with the eradication of smallpox than Jenner's contributions to the development of vaccination and the ...

In 1796, Edward Jenner noticed that people who worked near cows and developed cowpox were not catching smallpox. The poxes, ...

Caricature of Edward Jenner inoculating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras. The patients are shown growing cow heads from parts of their anatomy following the vaccination ...

Vaccines have been a cornerstone of that effort for centuries, safeguarding generations against preventable diseases—right ...

Smallpox has a fearsome reputation, having killed more people in history than any other infectious disease. It was quite a victory, then, when English physician Edward Jenner developed an ...

Twenty years later, in 1796, Edward Jenner determined that inoculation with cowpox, a far milder virus, conferred equally powerful immunity against smallpox. He named the procedure “vaccination ...

The smallpox vaccine is not a form of variola virus, but a preparation of vaccinia (a form of cowpox) virus. In 1796, Edward Jenner, a British physician, demonstrated that infection caused by ...

G C' is Edward Jenner's (1749-1823) nephew, George Charles Jenner. For centuries, smallpox was greatly feared. A third of people who contracted the disease died of it, and the survivors were often ...

A young milkmaid had told him how people who contracted cowpox, a harmless disease easily picked up during contact with cows, never got smallpox, a deadly scourge. With this in mind, Jenner took ...

His name? Edward Jenner. For over three thousand years, smallpox devasted mankind. In 18th century Europe, this ‘speckled monster’ killed roughly 400,000 people every year, and for centuries ...

In 1796, Edward Jenner noticed that people who worked near cows and developed cowpox were not catching smallpox. The poxes, ...