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The Jenner Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine, formerly known as the Jenner Memorial Medal or the Jenner Medal of the Epidemiological Society of London, is awarded from time to time by the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), London, at the recommendation of its Epidemiology and Public Health Section, to individuals who have undertaken distinguished work in epidemiological research or made ...
Jenner became a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Society on its founding in 1805 (now the Royal Society of Medicine) and presented several papers there. In 1808, with government aid, the National Vaccine Establishment was founded, but Jenner felt dishonoured by the men selected to run it and resigned his directorship.
The Edward Jenner Medal was originally established in 1896 by the Epidemiological Society of London (1850–1907) to commemorate the centenary of Edward Jenner's discovery of a means of smallpox vaccination. [50] It is awarded periodically by the RSM to individuals who have undertaken distinguished work in epidemiological research. [citation ...
The Jenner Medal was instituted by the society in 1896 to commemorate the centenary of Edward Jenner’s first vaccination of a boy against smallpox. [8] It features on one side the head of Jenner and on the other the globe emblem of the Epidemiological Society. It was first presented in 1898 to Sir William Henry Power. [9]
He is reported to have discussed this possibility over a Convivio-Medical Society dinner at the Ship Inn in Alveston. He also encouraged others to take up the inquiry. Amongst those at the meeting was Edward Jenner, a young medical apprentice at the time. [5] [6] Fewster followed up this observation, but only to a limited extent and not in writing.
1803 Edward Jenner; 1802 No award; 1801 Francis Bouttatz, for his work on the Medicinal Effects of Phosphorus; 1795 John Mason Good, on Medical Technology; 1792–94 No award; 1791 John Lettsom, Diseases of Great Towns and the Best Means of Preventing them; 1790 Robert Willan, on Skin Diseases; 1788–1789 No award
It was the first medical research charity in the United Kingdom. It was renamed the Jenner Institute (after Edward Jenner, the pioneer of smallpox vaccine) in 1898 and then, in 1903, as the Lister Institute in honour of the great surgeon and medical pioneer, Dr Joseph Lister. In 1905, the institute became a school of the University of London. [4]
His son Edward Jenner Coxe, born December 8, 1801, at Philadelphia, also went on to become a medical doctor, receiving his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1823. Edward married Mary Louisa, daughter of Louis Clapier, of Marseilles, France, and died in New Orleans, September 21, 1862.