Edward Jenner Father of Immunology

1. EDWARD JENNER
FATHER OF IMMUNOLOGY

2. SMALLPOX VICTIM

3. EDWARD JENNER

4.  Born - 17 May 1749, Berkeley,
England
Father : Reverend Stephen Jenner,
was the vicar of Berkeley
At the age of 14, he was
apprenticed for seven years to Daniel
Ludlow, a surgeon , Berkeley

5. In 1770, Jenner became
apprenticed in surgery and anatomy
under surgeon John Hunter at St
George's Hospital, London
In 1772 returned to his hometown
and started his practice

6. Common Cuckoo

7. Newly hatched Cuckoo pushes its host’s Egg

8. THE VACCINE STORY
Ancient Practice – Variolation / Inoculation

9. Variolation / Inoculation

11. COWPOX

12. First experiment on May 14th 1796

13. Letter to Royal Society

14. Jenner’s Publication

15. Cartoon’s
Against
Vaccination

16. Jenner experimented on
several other children,
including his own 11-
month-old son.
In 1798, the results were
finally published in Royal
Society

17. NEPOLEON BONAPARTE

18. THOMAS JEFFERSON
“I avail myself of this
occasion of rendering
you a portion of the
tribute of gratitude
due to you from the
whole human family. Medicine has never
before produced any single improvement
of such utility”

19. TEMPLE OF VACCINIA

20. 1840 Vaccination
was banned
1853 vaccination
made compulsory in
England
1967 – World Health
Organization started
vaccination program
1980 – WHO
announced smallpox
was completely
eradicated from earth

21. 1825
Gloucester Cathedral
Berkeley

22. 1897
Tokyo, Japan

23. Boulogne sur mer
France

24. 1862, Bronze statue in
Kensington Gardens,
London

25. 1878 ,
Marble Statue
in Genoa, Italy

26. Video on Edward Jenner
https://youtu.be/jJwGNPRmyTI
https://youtu.be/jJwGNPRmyTI?t
=3
Edward Jenner Story.mp4

27. In science credit goes to the
man who convinces the world,
not the man to whom the idea
first occurs.
—FRANCIS GALTON