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Edward Jenner
(17 May 1749 - 26 Jan 1823)
English physician and surgeon who discovered vaccination for smallpox
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Science Quotes by Edward Jenner (1 quote)
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.
— Edward Jenner
John Baron, The Life of Dr. Jenner (1827), 140.
See also:
- 17 May - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Jenner's birth.
- Little Medical Heroes - by John Lentz - from Hygeia (1940)
- Edward Jenner - Inquiry (1798) - Library of Original Sources
- The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease, by H. Bazin. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Smallpox.
- Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward Jenner. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Edward Jenner.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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