Edward Jenner 200 years on

Edward Jenner

Where surgical india-rubber goods are required for hospital or sick room, the manufactures of Messrs. J. G. Ingram & Son, Ltd., appear to be of undoubted serviceability and quality. Set forth in their illustrated list are such articles as enemas (including the " Sterilendum," which is sterilisable in its entirety), syringes and sprays for various uses, hot water bottles, breast relievers, breas...

Edward Jenner

cow-pox of one human being from another: the first of a long series of protective inoculations upon which, for a hundred years, man has been dependent for his protection against one of the most terrible disease^ to which he is exposed. From this inoculation has grown our national system of vaccination, in the creation of which the name of this Society and its former president, Edward Seaton, wi...

Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner Museum

studied, and practiced as a country doctor—and later dominated a decade of my life! Jenner knew that poets talked about the nice complexions of milkmaids, and he heard a milkmaid say she was immune to smallpox because she had acquired cowpox. He came to believe in the protective effects of cowpox after careful review of the experiences of milkmaids during smallpox outbreaks. He spent a dozen ye...

Edward Jenner—II

quiry " was translated into German by Ballhorn, who together with Stromeyer introduced the practice of vaccination into Hanover. Valentin and Desoteux were the first to call attention to the subject in France, and m 1800 Liancourt established a vaccine institution by subscription, obtaining considerable financial support from Lucien Bonaparte, who was then Secretary of the Interior. Francois Co...