Edward Jenner

The Jenner Society and the Edward Jenner Museum: tributes to a physician-scientist.

Dr. Edward Jenner's discovery and application of vaccination against smallpox was one of the most important medical advances of all time. In the modern era many millions of lives are saved each year by vaccines that work essentially on the same scientific principles established by Jenner more than 200 years ago. Jenner's country home in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK, where he carried out his wo...

Early clinical pathologists: Edward Jenner (1749-1823)

was very special to Edward, for it had looked after him after their 1 when Edward was only 5 years ol( Edward started school at the age Wooton-under-Edge, and then at Grammar School. He showed an e in natural history and by the age of a collection of dormice nests and f he was 12, he was sent to train < surgeon and became apprentic Ludlow, a surgeon in Sodbury, ne was here that Jenner acquired ...

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. The Wellcome collection of papers relating to Edward Jenner.

April 1985 sees the opening of a new Jenner Museum in The Chantry, Edward Jenner's former home at Berkeley, Gloucestershire. To mark the occasion, the Wellcome collection of papers relating to Edward Jenner, his family, and the early history of vaccination, has for the first time been fully sorted and listed. This article examines the background to the collection, which represents not only the ...

Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner and the discovery of vaccination--an appeal for the Edward Jenner Museum.

The discovery of vaccination was one of the greatest medical dvances of all time and, indeed, an estimated 8–10 million lives are resently saved on an annual basis worldwide by vaccines. Included n this number are the many that would have died of smallpox, radicated by vaccination in 1977 [1]. The potential for doubling his number exists if vaccines can be developed to control the major orld he...

An unusual portrait of Edward Jenner and a possible link with Napoleon.

INTODUCTION IN JANUARY 1967 there started the campaign organized by W.H.O. to eradicate smallpox totally. This campaign could not have hoped to succeed without a safe, effective vaccine. Although Edward Jenner probably did not "discover" vaccination, he is usually (and properly) given credit for testing the method and bringing it before the public. Inevitably many engraved portraits of Jenner w...