A letter of Edward Jenner (1749–1823)

A letter of Edward Jenner (1749-1823).

IN 1773 Edward Loveden Loveden of Buscot Park in Berkshire married Margaret Pryse, heiress of the thirty thousand acre Cardiganshire estate of Gogerddan. In consequence a considerable bulk of Loveden's papers are to be found in the hitherto unscheduled Gogerddan archive in the National Library of Wales. Although he has not been accorded the dignity of an entry in the Dictionary of National Biog...

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

A bibliography of Edward Jenner

To celebrate her achievement, fifty-five scholars from West Germany, from other European countries, from Asia and the USA have contributed essays to the present volumes. It would be too much to expect either that all the contributors should manage to attain here the combination of adventurousness and precision which characterizes Professor Putscher's best writings, or that the reviewer should b...