Edward Jenner
/ˌedwəd ˈdʒenə(r)/
/ˌedwərd ˈdʒenər/
- (1749-1823) an English doctor who first used the term vaccination. He found that by deliberately infecting people with cowpox (a disease of cows) he could prevent them from catching smallpox, a serious human disease, and that this was safer than inoculation with smallpox, which had been done previously.
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Edward Jenner