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. ... Dr Jenner, who was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, created the first smallpox vaccine.

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 ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. 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 ...

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.