Vaccinia, Vaccination, Vaccinology: Jenner, Pasteur and Their Successors

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...

Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination.

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Edward Jenner and the introduction of vaccination in Malta.

IN THE mid-eighteenth century smallpox was prevalent in Malta. Variolation had been tried as a preventive measure but was found disappointing and dangerous in its results, so much so that its practice was prohibited in 1769 by the Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, which then ruled over the Island., At the time of Jenner's discovery of vaccination in 1798, Malta was occupied by...

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