Years later, Edward Jenner the village physician and man of science had the idea that there might be a less risky way to protect people against smallpox, based on the milkmaids' seeming immunity.

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...

More than 220 years ago, the residents of an English village lined up outside a small wooden hut to have their arms scratched with a lancet as they were given the first vaccine for smallpox.

Edward Jenner (1749–1823), born as an orphan in Berkeley, England, is considered to be the first physician to have given his patients the smallpox vaccine in 1796. His observations that people who had ...

Edward Jenner deliberately infected a young boy with cowpox and then smallpox. But his method wasn’t as mad as is often made out. Judging Jenner: was his smallpox experiment really unethical?

As history tells it, young Edward Jenner heard a milkmaid say she'd had cowpox so couldn't get smallpox. And thus his idea for a vaccine was born. Now a researcher has fact-checked the tale.

Dr. Edward Jenner, an English country physician, ... Smallpox, which causes flu-like symptoms, fever, and raised bumps to appear on the face and body, is particularly noxious.

Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine in 1796, pioneering immunization practices. Louis Pasteur demonstrated that microorganisms cause disease and introduced pasteurization.

Edward Jenner: even though the term didn't exist then, he was still describing the zoonotic origins of smallpox, and associating those origins with his contemporary, consumer economy.

Edward Jenner received a wealth of titles and honors for his achievment. The British Parliament awarded him £10,000 —a colossal sum for the time—later supplemented with an additional £20,000.

Sixteenth century Aztec drawing of smallpox victims. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. One of the most celebrated medical anniversaries concerns a country doctor named Edward Jenner (1749-1823) who ...