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 ...

I didn't either. Dr. Edward Jenner, an English country physician, officially legitimized and introduced the word "vaccination" into the scientific literature in the late 1700s. He wasn't the first ...

Dr. Edward Jenner. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Said to have originated in China, smallpox inoculation was commonly practiced across the Orient and Ottoman Empire. It typically caused a ...

ON January 26, 1823, Dr. Edward Jenner, the discoverer of protective vaccination against smallpox, died in his home at Berkeley—a village of Gloucestershire—where he had lived long and ...

Dr. Barbara ten Brink’s biography titled, During the Pandemic with Edward Jenner, describes the success of Dr. Edward Jenner to defy Mr. Darwin’s quote. Dr. Jenner was the first to have the ...

Owen Gower, the museum manager at Dr. Edward Jenner’s House, Museum and Garden in Berkeley, England, March 9, 2021. The site where Jenner first inoculated people against smallpox has struggled ...

“It’s going to be a lot of work to get reopening again,” she said. The Temple of Vaccinia where Dr. Edward Jenner carried out free vaccinations for smallpox for local residents.Credit ...