EDWARD JENNER
(1749-1823)
HIS EARLY LIFE
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BORN IN BERKELEY, ENGLAND ON MAY
17, 1749
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ORPHANED AT AGE 5
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WENT TO KATHERINE LADY
BERKELEY’S SCHOOL.
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STUDIED UNDER DANIEL LUDLOW AND
ALSO SURGEON JOHN HUNTER.
HIS DISCOVERIES
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He is known as “the father of immunology”.
He was the first to describe the brood parasitism of the
cuckoo.
Discovered that cowpox( Variolae vaccinae )virus is
closely related to variola virus ,the causative virus of
smallpox.
Known for the innovative contribution to immunization
and ultimate eradication of small pox.
He was the first person who successfully introduced
vaccination to prevent small pox.
HOW HE HAS HELPED THE WORLD
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Led to vaccines being common.
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Saved millions of people.
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Led to the first disease being eradicated.
LATER LIFE AND DEATH
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He became president of the Jennerian Society, concerned with
promoting vaccination to eradicate Smallpox.
He published his findings on the anatomical adaptation of the baby
cuckoo in 1788 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
In 1821, he was appointed physician extraordinary to King George IV,
and was also made mayor of Berkeley and justice of the peace.
In 1823, the last year of his life, he presented his "Observations on the
Migration of Birds" to the Royal Society.
Awarded occasionally by the Royal Society of Medicine in
epidemiological research.
He died of an apparent stroke, his second, on 26 January 1823, aged
73.
REMEMBERING THE GREAT MAN…..
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Jenner’s house is now a small museum housing among
other things the horns of the cow, Blossom (Berkeley).
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Near the small Gloucestershire village of Uley,
Downham Hill is locally known as “Smallpox Hill”, with a
possible connection to Jenner’s local work with the
disease.
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A statue of him was erected in Trafalgar Square later
moved to Kensington Gardens.
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I hope that some day the practice of producing
cowpox in human beings will spread over the
world –when that day comes, there will be no
more smallpox.
-EDWARD JENNER
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