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Name: Edward Jenner
Birth Date: May 17, 1749
Death Date: January 26, 1823
Place of Birth: Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
Place of Death: Berkeley, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: physician

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Biography of Edward Jenner
753 words, approx. 3 pages
Jenner was born in Berkeley, England, the third son and youngest of six children of Stephen Jenner, a clergyman of the Church of England. He was orphaned at age five and was raised by his older brother, also a clergyman. When Jenner was thirteen years...
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Biography of Edward Jenner
729 words, approx. 2 pages
Edward Jenner discovered the process of vaccination, when he found that injection with cowpox protected against smallpox. His method of immunization via vaccination ushered in the new science of immunology. Jenner was born in Berkeley, England, the...
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Biography of Edward Jenner
514 words, approx. 2 pages
The English physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823) introduced vaccination against smallpox and thus laid the foundation of modern concepts of immunology. Edward Jenner was born on May 17, 1749, in the village of Berkeley in Gloucestershire. At 8 his...


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Edward Jenner Summary
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1749-1823 English Physician and Scientist Edward Jenner developed the medical procedure known as vaccination, or the inoculation of cowpox to prevent smallpox. He also conducted research on the cuckoo bird, promoted a new method of preparing emetic...
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Jenner, Edward
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(born May 17, 1749, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Jan. 26, 1823, Berkeley) English surgeon, discoverer of the smallpox vaccine. He was apprenticed to a surgeon at 13, and at 21 he became the house pupil of John Hunter, who gave him further...
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Edward Jenner Information
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Edward Jenner, FRS, (May 17 1749 – January 26 1823) was an English scientist who studied his natural surroundings in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. He is famous as the first doctor to introduce and study the smallpox vaccine, although Benjamin...


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Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination.
01/01/2005: 4,444 words, approx. 15 pages
In science credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.--Francis Galton ********** For many centuries, smallpox devastated mankind. In modern times we do not have to worry about it thanks to...
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Journal of Public Health Policy
The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease
01/01/2002: 758 words, approx. 3 pages
Herve Bazin. The Eradication of Smallpox. Edward Jenner and the First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease. Academic Press, 2000. ix-xx + 243 pp. $49.95 cloth. Twenty years after the eradication of smallpox from the planet in 1980, Herve Bazin, has...
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AP News
Today in history - May 14
5/14/2007: 557 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Monday, May 14, the 134th day of 2007. There are 231 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Four hundred years ago, on May 14, 1607, English colonists went ashore in Virginia to begin building a permanent settlement, named Jamestown after England's King...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 88%
Edward Jenner: Destroyer of Smallpox
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Discusses the life and work of Edward Jenner, an early pioneer in creating a smallpox vaccine. Discusses his early life and experiments with cowpox and human vaccines.


 

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