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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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?

The first vaccine created by Edward Jenner in the late 18th century helped control disease transmission and, two centuries later, eliminate smallpox worldwide, thanks to a global eradication ...

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.

The best-known version of the smallpox-vaccine story goes like this: In 1796, the British doctor Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids exposed to a mild disease called cowpox were unusually ...

It has been called the birthplace of modern vaccination. 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 … ...