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Write a Biography of Edward Jenner Give emphasis on his work.​

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DWARD JENNER

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Edward Jenner

English surgeon

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Lester S. King

Former Professorial Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University of Chicago. Author of The Growth of Medical Thought.

Last Updated: May 13, 2021 See Article History

Edward Jenner, (born May 17, 1749, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England—died January 26, 1823, Berkeley), English surgeon and discoverer of vaccination for smallpox.

Edward Jenner

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Edward Jenner, detail of an oil painting by James Northcote, 1803; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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BORN

May 17, 1749

Berkeley, England

DIED

January 26, 1823 (aged 73)

Berkeley, England

SUBJECTS OF STUDY

smallpox

active immunization

Jenner was born at a time when the patterns of British medical practice and education were undergoing gradual change. Slowly the division between the Oxford- or Cambridge-trained physicians and the apothecaries or surgeons—who were much less educated and who acquired their medical knowledge through apprenticeship rather than through academic work—was becoming less sharp, and hospital work was becoming much more important

Jenner was a country youth, the son of a clergyman. Because Edward was only five when his father died, he was brought up by an older brother, who was also a clergyman. Edward acquired a love of nature that remained with him all his life. He attended grammar school and at the age of 13 was apprenticed to a nearby surgeon. In the following eight years Jenner acquired a sound knowledge of medical and surgical practice. On completing his apprenticeship at the age of 21, he went to London and became the house pupil of John Hunter, who was on the staff of St. George’s Hospital and was one of the most prominent surgeons in London. Even more important, however, he was an anatomist, biologist, and experimentalist of the first rank; not only did he collect biological specimens, but he also concerned himself with problems of physiology and function.