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Edward Jenner

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Edward Jenner (1749-1823) English physician. [1837]. Jenner practiced as a country doctor in his native Gloucestershire. He noted that immunity to smallpox was given by cowpox. In 1796 he vaccinated James Phipps a number of times with puss from cowpox pustules on a dairy maid. He than innoculated him with smallpox. The boy was ill for a few days, then recovered. From "The Gallery of Portraits" by Charles Knight, (London, 1837).

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