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 ...

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 advent of vaccinations came when a scientist, by the name of Edward Jenner, discovered that an individual exposed to a ...

According to lore, Jenner was a country doctor-albeit a well-educated one-who heard a rumor that the cowpox virus could provide immunity to smallpox. Investigating the theory, Jenner endured the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

This cow horn, one of many, is at the Edward Jenner Musuem in Berkeley ... Blossom the cow was the inspiration for Jenner's work on the smallpox vaccine: her cowpox passed to Sarah Nelmes ...

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 ...

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 ...