On This Day 17 May 1749 Edward Jenner was born
Jenner Wing is attached to one of the hospitals in the area, St George's Hospital and is part of SGUL- previously St George's Hospital Medical School
In 1770, Jenner was apprenticed in surgery and anatomy under surgeon John Hunter and others at St George's Hospital.
Edward Jenner, FRS FRCPE (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine.
The terms "vaccine" and "vaccination" are derived from Variolae vaccinae (smallpox of the cow), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1796 in the long title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox, in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox.
On 14 May 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, an eight-year-old boy who was the son of Jenner's gardener. He scraped pus from cowpox blisters on the hands of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom
The hide of Blossom now hangs on the wall of the SGUL (previously St George's Hospital Medical School) library now in Tooting
Jenner Wing is attached to one of the hospitals in the area, St George's Hospital and is part of SGUL- previously St George's Hospital Medical School
In 1770, Jenner was apprenticed in surgery and anatomy under surgeon John Hunter and others at St George's Hospital.
Edward Jenner, FRS FRCPE (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine.
The terms "vaccine" and "vaccination" are derived from Variolae vaccinae (smallpox of the cow), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1796 in the long title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox, in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox.
On 14 May 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, an eight-year-old boy who was the son of Jenner's gardener. He scraped pus from cowpox blisters on the hands of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom
The hide of Blossom now hangs on the wall of the SGUL (previously St George's Hospital Medical School) library now in Tooting
