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Jenner (EDWARD an English physician)

EDWARD, an English physician; born in Berkeley, Glouces- JENNER, EDWARD, an English After many years devoted to the consideration of, and exmade with, vaccine lymph (or fluid taken from a pustule on the teat of a specific for smallpox, Jenabled to satisfy many medical men that ner was for the first time, in 1796, enner was for the first time, in 1796, enthe lymph, when inserted under the skin of a patient of any age, acted as a preventive of the disease known as smallpox.

He died in 1823. physician; born in Chatham in 1815;