Author: Edward Jenner
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Languages : en
Pages : 91

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Author: John Baron
Publisher:
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Category : Physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 658

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Author: F. Dawtrey Drewitt
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 127

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Author: John Baron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108071147
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 487

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Published 1827-38, this laudatory two-volume biography illuminates Jenner's professional and personal life as well as the science of vaccination.

Author: Frederic Dawtrey Drewitt
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Category : Vaccination
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: Robin Jenner
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1528993268
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Dr. Edward Jenner was a man who has saved millions of lives due to his discovery of cowpox as the most effective treatment for the killer disease of smallpox. Born in 1749, he was orphaned at the age of five years, his parents both dying within two months of each other in 1754. He was sent away to boarding school at the age of eight years, and whilst there was subjected to be inoculated with a small amount of smallpox which was the standard treatment of the day, although it was a matter of luck as to whether the patient survived or not. He suffered side effects that haunted him to his dying day. Luckily for us, he survived his ordeal, and as an adult, he dedicated his life to finding a more effective and much safer cure for smallpox and despite a great deal of opposition from some of his medical colleagues, found the cure and in 1980, the World Health Organisation officially announced that smallpox had finally been eliminated. There is a statue of him in Gloucester Cathedral and sadly visitors to the cathedral know little or nothing about him. As the 200th anniversary of his death in 1823 approaches, this book attempts to show the reader how much we owe him.

Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: Rob Boddice
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750966858
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Edward Jenner is a giant of modern medicine. Throughout history, smallpox had plagued humanity with disfigurement, blindness and death. It was an incurable blight, the suffering of which Jenner helped to end. Surmising from the immunity of milkmaids that cowpox might be some defence against the ravages of smallpox, in 1793 he took some of the matter from a human case of cowpox and inserted it into the arm of a young boy. To test this, the first human-to-human vaccination, he subsequently inoculated the boy with smallpox itself, and found him to be immune from the disease. In 1979 smallpox was declared extinct. In this concise biography, Rob Boddice tells the story of Jenner's life, his medical vision and his profound legacy. It is a story that encompasses revolutions in medical experimentation, public health provision and the prevention of other diseases, from anthrax to measles, but above all it highlights the profound impact that Jenner's vision has had upon humanity's battle against disease.

Author: F. Dawtrey (Frederic Dawtrey) Drewitt
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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