Edward Jenner
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Edward Jenner English physician who pioneered the concept of vaccination and created the world's first vaccine against smallpox in 1796. His observation that milkmaids who contracted cowpox were immune to smallpox led to the development of modern immunology. His work has saved more lives than any other medical intervention in history.
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Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae, the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1798 in the title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox, in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox.
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This profile section is complemented from Wikipedia for Edward Jenner. English physician and pioneer of vaccines (1749–1823)
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