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- Title
From Jenner to modern smallpox vaccines.
- Authors
Cartwright, Keith
- Abstract
The article profiles Edward Jenner, English physician who pioneered vaccination. He was born in 1749 in Gloucestershire, England and pursued his interest in medicine in London where he became a student and lifelong close friend of anatomist and surgeon John Hunter. At the time of her returned to Gloucestershire in 1772, smallpox was an infectious scourge affecting mainly children. He inoculated people with cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; JENNER, Edward, 1749-1823; PHYSICIANS; PREVENTION of smallpox; VACCINATION; VACCINIA
- Publication
Occupational Medicine, 2005, Vol 55, Issue 7, p563
- ISSN
0962-7480
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/occmed/kqi163