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 ...

The history of medicine goes back to the dawn of mankind when ancient healers used special herbs to treat illnesses. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, laid the foundation for modern medical ...

Smallpox was eradicated worldwide in the late ... More than 200 years ago, physician Edward Jenner made a crucial-discovery which led to the first vaccine. He found that milkmaids who developed ...

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 ...

Edward Jenner introduced the first vaccine, against smallpox, in 1798. New York surgeon William Coley originated immunotherapy in 1893, when he infected cancer patients with killed bacteria to ...

More than two centuries ago, Edward Jenner’s discovery of the smallpox vaccine laid the foundation for modern public health, saving millions of lives. In 1776, George Washington ordered all his ...

Depending on when and where you were born, you might have a particular scar on your arm that everyone else around you also has. This, as many of you probably already know, is the smallpox vaccine.

And regular polling carried out by YouGov suggests adults are increasingly likely to say that vaccines have harmful side ...

BRIAN LOCKHART As part of my work, I do a lot of research. Some of that research is about local history. As such, I have spent considerable time at the sites of ghost towns, pioneer cemeteries, ...

The current wave of scepticism is the latest rekindling of an angry debate going back to the dawn of vaccination in 1796 when Edward Jenner created the smallpox vaccine. In the 1890s huge crowds ...