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Jenner 1. Edward 1749--1823, English physician, who discovered vaccination by showing that injections of cowpox virus produce immunity against smallpox (1796) 2. Sir William. 1815--98, English physician and pathologist, who differentiated between typhus and typhoid fevers (1849) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He went to study in Paris with the determination that when he provincial home again he would settle in some provincial town as a general practitioner, and resist the irrational severance between medical and surgical knowledge in the interest of his own scientific pursuits, as well as of the general advance: he would keep away from the range of London intrigues, jealousies, and social truckling, and win celebrity, however slowly, as Jenner had done, by the independent value of his work. |
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