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In the present age of scientific investigation it is remarkable that a disease of so peculiar a nature as the cow-pox … should so long have escaped particular attention.
—Letter to C. H. Parry, M.D. at Bath
Edward
Jenner
Edward Jenner
 
1749–1823, English physician; pupil of John Hunter. His invaluable experiments beginning in 1796 with the vaccination of eight-year-old James Phipps proved that cowpox provided immunity against smallpox. His discovery was instrumental in ridding many areas of the world of a dread disease and laid the foundations of modern immunology as a science.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.)
 
Pronunciation:  jn´r from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox
Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXVIII, Part 4.
 
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