any formal qualifications prior to the demonstration with ether is also confirmed. Interweaving the traditional story with his new information, Wolfe leads the reader through a very different tale of the introduction of ether by a man not conditioned by scientific training and lacking in moral principles. The notion is raised that it was Charles T Jackson who put the idea for the use of ether i...

Edward's brother Henry was private chaplain to Aylesbury. In later years, she was frequently in Cheltenham during the season, as were the Jenners, and Edward was in London when she played the lead in a short-run play written by Joanna Baillie, the sister of Matthew, whom Jenner knew well. Also, Charles Moore, the brother of James Carrick Moore of vaccination fame, followed her about devotedly, ...