Friday marks the 270th birthday of Edward Jenner, the doctor who developed the world's first vaccine. Born on May 17, 1749, Edward Jenner grew up in Berkeley, in southwest England, and after ...

Dr. Edward Jenner, an English country physician, officially legitimized and introduced the word "vaccination" into the scientific literature in the late 1700s.

Columnist Patrice Apodaca talks to a pediatric infectious diseases expert about why measles outbreaks among children are a ...

Sixteenth century Aztec drawing of smallpox victims. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. One of the most celebrated medical anniversaries concerns a country doctor named Edward Jenner (1749-1823) who ...

It has been called the birthplace of modern vaccination. More than 220 years ago, the residents of an English village lined up outside a small wooden hut to have their arms scratched with a lancet … ...

In addition to the trenches in the paddock, archaeologists are working in the garden that once belonged to 18th-century physician Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine.

As history tells it, young Edward Jenner heard a milkmaid say she'd had cowpox so couldn't get smallpox. And thus his idea for a vaccine was born. Now a researcher has fact-checked the tale.

Edward Jenner is often called “the father of immunology” and it’s said his work may have saved more lives than the work of any other human. To be fair, ...

The letter sheds light on Jenner's beliefs about the use of cowpox and horsepox in vaccination. Dominic Winter Auctioneers. An 1802 letter written by vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner to a ...

Edward Jenner was an 18th century English physician and scientist who was instrumental in the development of the world’s first vaccine, which was for smallpox.

The pioneering local doctor administering the vaccine, Edward Jenner, called the modest building in his garden the “Temple of Vaccinia,” and from this place grew a public health movement that ...

The pioneering local doctor administering the vaccine, Edward Jenner, called the […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 52°F. Monday, May 26th 2025 eNewspaper. Home Page.