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Definition of Edward Jenner

1. Noun. English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823).

Medical Definition of Edward Jenner

1. Jenner was the typical country practitioner, who wanted to better himself by furthering his education. He enrolled as an anatomy house pupil of John Hunter. Although his city colleagues stamped him as a lazy and rather dull person, he actually was a highly intelligent country physician. He became cognisant that milk maids, who developed pustules on their hands from milking cows did not get smallpox. So he used Sarah Nelmes, a dairy maid with cowpox pustules, as his donor to inoculate (vaccinate) 8-year-old James Phipps on May 14, l796. (Why did not this maid receive her due recognition ?) He waited until July 1, 1796 (1-1/2 months) at which time he challenged the youngster with the smallpox virus. The boy was totally protected without any symptoms whatsoever. Jenner continued to inoculate the people in his vicinity including his own children. The recipients were then challenged with smallpox and complete protection was noted. Edward Jenner published his results of 123 cases in 1796, and his discovery was rapidly accepted and popularised. By 1800, more than 6,000 people had been vaccinated. Catherine the Great, the beautiful Czarina of Russia, received her inoculation, for which she paid 12,000 pounds. Variola is the medical term for smallpox, whereas Varicella is chicken pox. Lived: 1749-1823. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Edward Jenner

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1. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"... Edward Jenner Edward Jenner was born May 17, 1749, at Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. He studied surgery under John Hunter, the comparative ..."

2. History and Pathology of Vaccination by Edgar March Crookshank (1889)
"LIFE AND LETTERS OF Edward Jenner. Edward Jenner was a native of Berkeley, in Gloucestershire. He was born in 1749, and was the third son of the Rev. ..."

3. The Numismatic Chronicle by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1896)
"... in Dr. J. Baron's Life of Edward Jenner (London, 1888), and in the descriptions of medical medals by Rudolphi, ..."

4. Transactions by Epidemiological Society of London (1896)
"Edward Jenner. (Statement by the President, 15th May 1896.) BEFORE we begin the business which has brought us here to-night, it is right that we should ..."

5. Contributions to Medical and Biological Research by William Osler (1919)
"Edward Jenner, A STUDENT OF MEDICINE, AS ILLUSTRATED IN HIS LETTERS By HENRY BARTON ... 1919, marks the lyoth anniversary of the birthday of Edward Jenner. ..."

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