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• Jenner method — Jen·ner method (jenґər) [Louis Leopold Jenner, English physician, 1866–1904] see Stains and Staining Methods, under stain …   Medical dictionary

• Jenner — Edward, 1749–1823; English physician and naturalist who discovered the method of vaccinating against smallpox by inoculating susceptible persons with cowpox (vaccinia); J. method led directly to the eradication of smallpox worldwide in 1977, the… …   Medical dictionary

• Jenner method — a method for demonstrating blood corpuscles …   Medical dictionary

• History of Medicine —     History of Medicine     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► History of Medicine     The history of medical science, considered as a part of the general history of civilization, should logically begin in Mesopotamia, where tradition and philological… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Benjamin Waterhouse — (March 4, 1754, Newport, Rhode Island October 2, 1846, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. He is most well known for being the first doctor to test the smallpox vaccine in the United States, which he …   Wikipedia

• Ingenhousz , Jan — (1730–1799) Dutch plant physiologist and physician Ingenhousz, who was born at Breda in the Netherlands, studied medicine, chemistry, and physics at the universities of Louvain and Leiden, receiving his MD from Louvain in 1752. In 1765 he visited …   Scientists

• Vaccination — Intervention Child receiving an oral polio vaccine ICD 9 CM …   Wikipedia

• medicine, history of — Introduction  the development of the prevention and treatment of disease from prehistoric and ancient times to the 20th century. Medicine and surgery before 1800 Primitive (primitive culture) medicine and folklore       Unwritten history is not… …   Universalium

• Cowpox — Classification and external resources ICD 10 B08.0 ICD 9 051.01 MeSH …   Wikipedia

• Smallpox vaccine — The smallpox vaccine was the first successful vaccine ever to be developed. It was first perfected in 1796 by Edward Jenner who acted upon the observation that milkmaids who caught the cowpox virus did not catch smallpox. Before smallpox… …   Wikipedia

• Immunity (medical) — Immunity is a biological term that describes a state of having sufficient biological defenses to avoid infection, disease, or other unwanted biological invasion. Immunity involves both specific and non specific components. The non specific… …   Wikipedia