Edward Jenner

In the late 18th century, the British scientist Edward Jenner discovered that scratching the arms of healthy children with a bit of pus from cowpox immunized them against smallpox.

The Shot Heard Round the World Scott Gottlieb 2011

Edward Jenner (122 million lives saved): In the late 1700s, this English doctor wondered if farmers were less likely to get smallpox because they were often exposed to cowpox, a version of the disease.

Web site celebrates often unknown scientists who have saved lives 2010

That was when Edward Jenner realized that milkmaids who caught cowpox seemed to be protected from smallpox, to which cowpox was related.

Stewart Abercrombie Baker: Smallpox in the Garage 2010

More recently, in the 1790s Edward Jenner had discovered that smallpox could be prevented by inoculation with cowpox, and in 1854 John Snow had demonstrated that cholera was transmitted through the water supplies.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

That was when Edward Jenner realized that milkmaids who caught cowpox seemed to be protected from smallpox, to which cowpox was related.

Stewart Abercrombie Baker: Smallpox in the Garage Stewart Abercrombie Baker 2010

Edward Jenner (1749-1823 CE) who introduced the small pox vaccine was also a renowned surgeon.

Notable Physicians, Medicine And Christ, The Great Physician I 2009

As he pursues this "a relay race of scientific stories," Mr. Holmes provides vivid snapshots of figures from the period, from literary eminences like Lord Byron and Edward Young (the author of the death-obsessed poem "Night Thoughts") to such denizens of the pantheon of science and exploration as Michael Faraday, Edward Jenner and Charles Babbage.

Nature Was The Teacher By Roger Kimball 2009

The great Edward Jenner first used a vaccine in 1796, for smallpox.

Landmarks 2008

(A classical example of an early public health intervention was the introduction of vaccination against smallpox by Edward Jenner more than two centuries ago; this scourge has now been entirely eradicated.)

Human population explosion 2008

When Edward Jenner hit upon the notion of a smallpox vaccine in 1797, the Royal Society of London scolded him for risking his reputation on something "so much at variance with established knowledge, and withal so incredible."

The Real Hot Zone 2008