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Edward Jenner (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae ('pustules of the cow'), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox .
The smallpox vaccine is used to prevent smallpox infection caused by the variola virus. [10] It is the first vaccine to have been developed against a contagious disease. In 1796, British physician Edward Jenner demonstrated that an infection with the relatively mild cowpox virus conferred immunity against the deadly smallpox virus.
1798: Smallpox vaccine, the first successful vaccine to be developed, invented by Edward Jenner (1749–1823); in so doing, Jenner is said to have "saved more lives [. . .] than were lost in all the wars of mankind since the beginning of recorded history." [83] [84]
Dr Edward Jenner was responsible for the first hydrogen balloon flight in Gloucestershire in 1784. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
Edward Jenner pioneered smallpox inoculation with cowpox virus. 1800. The Royal College of Surgeons of England was founded. 1805. Astley Cooper pioneered ligation of arteries. 1842. Crawford Williamson Long pioneered ether for anesthesia. 1844. Horace Wells pioneered nitrous oxide for anesthesia. 1848. James Young Simpson pioneered chloroform ...
James Phipps (1788 – 1853) was the first person given the experimental cowpox vaccine by Edward Jenner. [1] Jenner knew of a local belief that dairy workers who had contracted a relatively mild infection called cowpox were immune to smallpox , and successfully tested his theory on the 8-years-old James Phipps on 17 May 1796.
Dr Edward Jenner, who developed the smallpox vaccine, wrote to a fellow physician to thank him for endorsing his work Letter written by ‘father of vaccines’ could sell for £8,000 Skip to main ...
Onesimus (late 1600s–1700s [1]) was an African (likely Akan) man who was instrumental in the mitigation of smallpox in Boston, Massachusetts.. He introduced his enslaver, Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather, to the principle and procedure of the variolation method of inoculation, which prevented smallpox and laid the foundation for the development of vaccines.