It was quite a victory, then, when English physician Edward Jenner developed an inoculation against smallpox in 1796. Armed with the knowledge that milkmaids who had been exposed to cowpox ...

Enter: Dr Edward Jenner 'the father of immunology ... highlighting how important Jenner’s discovery was in 1796. Pupils could investigate how the gin epidemic forced the government to take ...

Vaccines have been a staple of modern medicine since Edward Jenner’s pioneering work with smallpox in 1796, but it is relatively recently that a professional society was formed to support the ...