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The Man Who Saved The World From Smallpox: Doctor Edward Jenner

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  1. 2. The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease
  2. 3. The Life of Edward Jenner: With Illustrations of His Doctrines and Selections from His Correspondence
  3. 4. A Catalogue of the Collection of Relics of Dr. Edward Jenner (1896)
  4. 5. A Bibliography of Edward Jenner (St Paul's Bibliographies II)
  5. 6. Edward Jenner: A Biography
  6. 7. Letters from the past: From John Hunter to Edward Jenner
  7. 8. Edward Jenner: The Cheltenham years, 1795-1823 : being a chronicle of the vaccination campaign

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Fumento: Swine Flu Hysteria

... essentially acting as a vaccine against its far deadlier cousin. (The father of vaccinations, Edward Jenner , observed something similar: Cowpox protected dairy workers from the often-deadly and horribly disfiguring smallpox.) Swine flu, therefore, prevents more flu deaths than it causes. Unfortunately, the U.S. “hysteria curve,” as indicated by emergency-room visits by...

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Anthraxing New York

by Peter W. Huber - November 2009 (Publication dated Autumn 2009) - City JournalOn May 14, 1796, Edward Jenner injects eight-year-old James Phipps with cowpox pus taken from lesions on the hand of milkmaid Sarah Nelmes, and finds that this mild infection protects Phipps from deliberate attempts to infect him with an aged and thus weakened form of the human pox. Jenner publishes...

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F**k You Baldrick

... to a short rant on the contents of the top ten:1: Michael Faraday, physicist2: JM Barrie, author3: Edward Jenner, smallpox vaccine pioneer4: John Peel, broadcaster5: Alan Turing, mathematician6: Baldrick, Blackadder character7: Midge Ure, singer8: Percy Shaw, cat’s eyes inventor9: Tim Berners-Lee, worldwide web inventor10: Fred Scott, BBC cameramanAdmittedly some of the people in...

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The British heroes that never were

... more about them below.TOP 10 'UNSUNG HEROES' 1: Michael Faraday, physicist2: JM Barrie, author3: Edward Jenner, smallpox vaccine pioneer4: John Peel, broadcaster5: Alan Turing6: Baldrick, Blackadder character7: Midge Ure, singer8: Percy Shaw, cat's eyes inventor9: Tim Berners-Lee, worldwide web inventor10: Fred Scott, BBC cameramanSource: National LotteryThomas Clarkson, for instance,...

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1. Michael Faraday - Left school at 13 but went on to become one of the most influential scientists in history. His discovery of electromagnetic induction in 1831 was crucial in allowing electricity to be used in technology.2. J.M Barrie - Revered as a writer and dramatist but honoured here for leaving the rights to Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity.3. Edward Jenner...