edward jenner
- n English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823)
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- A View to a Kill: These Birds Specialize in Murder
The eighteenth-century British country doctor Edward Jenner, best known for devising the first effective vaccine against smallpox, was also a close observer of the natural world. He spent 15 years studying cuckoos, and was widely ridiculed for his conclusions—namely that the birds are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other species. By itself, this was “a monstrous outrage on ...
Aug. 27, 2013 - Takepart.com via Yahoo! News