Jenner, romanticism, and research.

Jenner

Edward Jenner (1749-1823), the son of a vicar in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, was educated at Wotton-under-Edge and Cirencester and at the age of 13 ^ears commenced seven years of apprenticeship to a surgeon in Sodbury, j*ear Bristol. He completed his medical education as first resident pupil of jf?hn Hunter for two years at St. George's Hospital, London. He returned to Berkeley as parish physici...

Jenner

Evangelical Christianity and Romanticism

Dr. Bebbington is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling, Scotland. This article is the second in a series of three entitled 'Evangelical Christianity and Western Culture Since the Eighteenth Century' and was presented by the author in the Staley Lectures at Regent College in April1989. (The first lecture in the series was published in the December 1989 issue of Crux.) The lec...

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...