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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1796, Edward Jenner, a British scientist and surgeon ... a harmless disease easily picked up during contact with cows, never got smallpox, a deadly scourge. With this in mind, Jenner took ...

Enter: Dr Edward Jenner 'the father of immunology'. Jenner lived in England when smallpox was at its height. While studying the disease, Jenner noticed that milkmaids who previously had cowpox ...

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 ...