Jenner
Jenner names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Jenner SIR WILLIAM VILLIAM, an Englis physician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR WILLIAM VILLIAM, an Englis physician; born in Chatham in 1815; , an English was educated at literature In Chatham in 1810 University College, London, where he professor of niversity College, Lon himself was professor (latterly of Practice science at Inimself was professo of Medicine) from 1848 till 1879. 1901, and ice of Medicine) from He was appointed physician in ordinary professor appointed phys to the queen in 1862, and to the Prince of Univerto the queen in 1862 Wales in 1863; was made a baronet ( was proof Wales in 1863; wa 1868), 1872), of the 368), K. C. B. (1872) G. C. B. (1893), F. R. S., president K. C. B. ( the College lent New York F. R. S., president o of of Physicians, etc. It was he who established research ysicians, etc. It wa the difference between typhus and typhoid public adthe difference between fevers (1851). He died Dec. 11, 1898 . From id fevers (1851). H . agent of Commission jef'tha), one of the judges of Israel, who made a remarkable
Jenner EDWARD, WARD
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD, WARD, an English an Engl physician; born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, in 1749. Berkeley, Glouc After many years devoted to the Aft After many yea GENGHIS consideration of, and experiments sideration of, and e made with, vaccine lymph (or fluid taken from Ith, vaccine lymph WHIPPLE, an a pustule on the teat of a cow), as pustule on the teat , born in a specific for smallpox, Jenner was for fic for smallpox, Je graduated rst time, in 1796, e abled to satisfy many medical men that the first time, in 1796, enthe lymph, when inserted in 1878. any medical men the under the skin of a patient of any in foreign serted under the sic to the bar age, acted as a prophylactic, or any age, acted as preventive of the disease known as smallpox. law. For eventive of the disea He died in 1823. and Latin He died in 1823. College professor of
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921, Jenner's vaccine was still being used against a disease that killed and disfigured people worldwide. Smallpox was the first human disease ever eradicated: the last natural case occurred in Somalia in 1977 and the World Health Organization declared the world free of it in 1980, after which routine vaccination was abandoned everywhere. One detail in the old account has also shifted: genetic work suggests the vaccinia virus used in modern vaccines is not simply cowpox as Jenner supposed, but a distinct virus closest to horsepox. Sir William Jenner's entry stands as written hus from typhoid remains one of the useful clinical distinctions of Victorian medicine.
Written for this edition, 2026.