Edward Jenner
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Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived fr
Portrait by John Raphael Smith, 1800
Jenner's handwritten draft describing the first vaccination is held at the Royal College of Surgeons in London
Jenner's 1802 testimonial to the efficacy of vaccination, signed by 112 members of the Physical Society, London
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Inoculation
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Inoculation is the act of implanting a pathogen or other microbe or virus into a person or other organism. It is a method of artificially inducing immunity against various infectious diseases. The ter
Edward Jenner
…When Jenner was young, he went to school in Wotton-under-Edge at Katherine Lady Berkeley's School and in Cirencester. During this time, Jenner was inoculated (by variolation) for smallpox, which had a lifelong effect upon his general health. At age 13, Jenner was apprenticed for seven years to Daniel Ludlow…
Mary Wortley Montagu, by Charles Jervas, after 1716