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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The concept of vaccines first emerged in the 18th century when Dr. Edward Jenner purposely gave a young boy cowpox. Jenner, subsequently, exposed the boy to smallpox. Interestingly, the boy did not ...

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 ...