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Edward Jenner, FRS (/ˈdʒɛnər/; 17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine.[1][2] The terms "vaccine" and "vaccination" are derived from Variolae vaccinae (smallpox of the cow), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1796 in the long title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox, in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox.[3]
Jenner is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other human".[4][5][6] In Jenner’s time, smallpox killed around 10 percent of the population, with the number as high as 20 percent in towns and cities where infection spread more easily.[6] In 1821 he was appointed physician extraordinary to King George IV, and was also made mayor of Berkeley and justice of the peace. A member of the Royal Society, in the field of zoology he was the first person to describe the brood parasitism of the cuckoo. In 2002, Jenner was named in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons.
Jenner is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other human".[4][5][6] In Jenner’s time, smallpox killed around 10 percent of the population, with the number as high as 20 percent in towns and cities where infection spread more easily.[6] In 1821 he was appointed physician extraordinary to King George IV, and was also made mayor of Berkeley and justice of the peace. A member of the Royal Society, in the field of zoology he was the first person to describe the brood parasitism of the cuckoo. In 2002, Jenner was named in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons.
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The life and legacy of Dr Edward Jenner FRS, pioneer of vaccination - Dr Tim Wallington
Known to many as "the father of immunology", Edward Jenner changed the path of world history on the 14th of May 1796 when he inoculated his gardener's 8-year...
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English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine Edward Jenner, FRS
Background on family from royalsocietypublishing.org/content/7/1/43:
"EDWARD JENNER was born in the vicarage at Berkeley on the banks of the Severn on 17 May 1749* He was the third son of the Rev. Stephen Jenner, M.A., Rector of Rockhampton and Vicar of Berkeley, a clergyman of some means and much landed property in Gloucestershire and Worcester, tutor to a former Earl of Berkeley and a friend of that noble house. Jenner’s mother was the daughter of the Rev. Flenry Head, a member of an old and respectable Berkshire family. His elder brother, also in Holy Orders, looked after the small boy of five when the father died and no doubt encouraged a natural liking for country life and a taste for natural history. Before he was nine young Jenner is said to have made a collection of the nests of the doormouse. He was put to school at Wotton-under-Edge under a Mr Clissold and later was placed in the care of the Rev. Dr Washbourn at Cirencester from whom he received a sound classical education. About this time he became a lifelong friend of Caleb Hillier Parry (1755-1822) who shared his enthusiasm for fossils which abounded in the oolitic formation in that neighbourhood. Parry, too, has achieved fame as an original contributor to medicine, for in the course of a long professional career at Bath he published important studies on angina pectoris and the arterial pulse, and without doubt gave the first complete description of exophthalmic goitre many years before Graves and Basedow, although they are universally given the credit of that discovery. One of Parry’s sons, afterwards Rear-Admiral William Edward Parry, R.N., gained fame as an arctic explorer."
Background on immunology from gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-life-and-legacy-of-dr-edward-jenner-frs-pioneer-of-vaccination#dJ9iumDCrMWFg4Ic.99
"Known to many as “the father of immunology”, Edward Jenner changed the path of world history on the 14th of May 1796 when he inoculated his gardener’s 8-year-old son with cow pox, subsequently demonstrating that this induced immunity to smallpox by challenging him with smallpox infected material. This was the scientific birth of vaccination. It was the product of a long gestation but that was not the end of Jenner’s endeavour. He had to battle to have his ground-breaking medical discovery recognised and implemented so that lives were saved. He was so successful that vaccination was in use world-wide in his life time and although it was almost two centuries before smallpox was finally eradicated millions of lives were saved and the principles established that led to the discovery of vaccines to other infectious diseases.
Dr Wallington describes the life and legacy of one of the most important figures in medical history focusing on the key ingredients of his success. The roots of his discovery of vaccination lay in Jenner’s own experience of variolation (inoculation of smallpox to prevent latter natural infection) as a schoolboy, astute observation of patients who had caught cow pox in rural medical practice in the Gloucestershire countryside, and induction into the scientific method by John Hunter while his student at St George’s Hospital. His discovery might have gone unnoticed if it had not been published and promoted and in particular adopted by people with influence. Much opposition had to be overcome and without his personal networks and belief in what could be achieved the world might have waited much longer for this simple, life saving treatment. Remarkably, Jenner’s curiosity and scientific success was much broader than vaccination, bird migration, cuckoo nesting, hibernation, fossil hunting, patent medicines and ballooning to name a few."
The life and legacy of Dr Edward Jenner FRS, pioneer of vaccination - Dr Tim Wallington
"Known to many as "the father of immunology", Edward Jenner changed the path of world history on the 14th of May 1796 when he inoculated his gardener's 8-year-old son with cow pox, subsequently demonstrating that this induced immunity to smallpox by challenging him with smallpox infected material. This was the scientific birth of vaccination. It was the product of a long gestation but that was not the end of Jenner's endeavour. He had to battle to have his ground-breaking medical discovery recognised and implemented so that lives were saved. He was so successful that vaccination was in use world-wide in his life time and although it was almost two centuries before smallpox was finally eradicated millions of lives were saved and the principles established that led to the discovery of vaccines to other infectious diseases.
Dr Wallington describes the life and legacy of one of the most important figures in medical history focussing on the key ingredients of his success. The roots of his discovery of vaccination lay in Jenner's own experience of variolation (inoculation of smallpox to prevent latter natural infection) as a schoolboy, astute observation of patients who had caught cow pox in rural medical practice in the Gloucestershire countryside, and induction into the scientific method by John Hunter while his student at St George's Hospital. His discovery might have gone unnoticed if it had not been published and promoted and in particular adopted by people with influence. Much opposition had to be overcome and without his personal networks and belief in what could be achieved the world might have waited much longer for this simple, life saving treatment. Remarkably, Jenner's curiosity and scientific success was much broader than vaccination, bird migration, cuckoo nesting, hibernation, fossil hunting, patent medicines and ballooning to name a few. You will be meeting a polymath for whom the scientific method was the key and his drive to understand nature as he observed it around him the source of his singular success."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKlwpmlGkWM
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English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine Edward Jenner, FRS
Background on family from royalsocietypublishing.org/content/7/1/43:
"EDWARD JENNER was born in the vicarage at Berkeley on the banks of the Severn on 17 May 1749* He was the third son of the Rev. Stephen Jenner, M.A., Rector of Rockhampton and Vicar of Berkeley, a clergyman of some means and much landed property in Gloucestershire and Worcester, tutor to a former Earl of Berkeley and a friend of that noble house. Jenner’s mother was the daughter of the Rev. Flenry Head, a member of an old and respectable Berkshire family. His elder brother, also in Holy Orders, looked after the small boy of five when the father died and no doubt encouraged a natural liking for country life and a taste for natural history. Before he was nine young Jenner is said to have made a collection of the nests of the doormouse. He was put to school at Wotton-under-Edge under a Mr Clissold and later was placed in the care of the Rev. Dr Washbourn at Cirencester from whom he received a sound classical education. About this time he became a lifelong friend of Caleb Hillier Parry (1755-1822) who shared his enthusiasm for fossils which abounded in the oolitic formation in that neighbourhood. Parry, too, has achieved fame as an original contributor to medicine, for in the course of a long professional career at Bath he published important studies on angina pectoris and the arterial pulse, and without doubt gave the first complete description of exophthalmic goitre many years before Graves and Basedow, although they are universally given the credit of that discovery. One of Parry’s sons, afterwards Rear-Admiral William Edward Parry, R.N., gained fame as an arctic explorer."
Background on immunology from gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-life-and-legacy-of-dr-edward-jenner-frs-pioneer-of-vaccination#dJ9iumDCrMWFg4Ic.99
"Known to many as “the father of immunology”, Edward Jenner changed the path of world history on the 14th of May 1796 when he inoculated his gardener’s 8-year-old son with cow pox, subsequently demonstrating that this induced immunity to smallpox by challenging him with smallpox infected material. This was the scientific birth of vaccination. It was the product of a long gestation but that was not the end of Jenner’s endeavour. He had to battle to have his ground-breaking medical discovery recognised and implemented so that lives were saved. He was so successful that vaccination was in use world-wide in his life time and although it was almost two centuries before smallpox was finally eradicated millions of lives were saved and the principles established that led to the discovery of vaccines to other infectious diseases.
Dr Wallington describes the life and legacy of one of the most important figures in medical history focusing on the key ingredients of his success. The roots of his discovery of vaccination lay in Jenner’s own experience of variolation (inoculation of smallpox to prevent latter natural infection) as a schoolboy, astute observation of patients who had caught cow pox in rural medical practice in the Gloucestershire countryside, and induction into the scientific method by John Hunter while his student at St George’s Hospital. His discovery might have gone unnoticed if it had not been published and promoted and in particular adopted by people with influence. Much opposition had to be overcome and without his personal networks and belief in what could be achieved the world might have waited much longer for this simple, life saving treatment. Remarkably, Jenner’s curiosity and scientific success was much broader than vaccination, bird migration, cuckoo nesting, hibernation, fossil hunting, patent medicines and ballooning to name a few."
The life and legacy of Dr Edward Jenner FRS, pioneer of vaccination - Dr Tim Wallington
"Known to many as "the father of immunology", Edward Jenner changed the path of world history on the 14th of May 1796 when he inoculated his gardener's 8-year-old son with cow pox, subsequently demonstrating that this induced immunity to smallpox by challenging him with smallpox infected material. This was the scientific birth of vaccination. It was the product of a long gestation but that was not the end of Jenner's endeavour. He had to battle to have his ground-breaking medical discovery recognised and implemented so that lives were saved. He was so successful that vaccination was in use world-wide in his life time and although it was almost two centuries before smallpox was finally eradicated millions of lives were saved and the principles established that led to the discovery of vaccines to other infectious diseases.
Dr Wallington describes the life and legacy of one of the most important figures in medical history focussing on the key ingredients of his success. The roots of his discovery of vaccination lay in Jenner's own experience of variolation (inoculation of smallpox to prevent latter natural infection) as a schoolboy, astute observation of patients who had caught cow pox in rural medical practice in the Gloucestershire countryside, and induction into the scientific method by John Hunter while his student at St George's Hospital. His discovery might have gone unnoticed if it had not been published and promoted and in particular adopted by people with influence. Much opposition had to be overcome and without his personal networks and belief in what could be achieved the world might have waited much longer for this simple, life saving treatment. Remarkably, Jenner's curiosity and scientific success was much broader than vaccination, bird migration, cuckoo nesting, hibernation, fossil hunting, patent medicines and ballooning to name a few. You will be meeting a polymath for whom the scientific method was the key and his drive to understand nature as he observed it around him the source of his singular success."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKlwpmlGkWM
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