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5 Notable Quotes By Edward Jenner

Famous As: Physicians
Born On: May 17, 1749
Died On: January 26, 1823
Born In: Berkeley, England
Died At Age: 73
Edward Jenner was an English surgeon who founded the first vaccine of the world - the vaccine for small pox. Known as the father of immunology,’ Jenner first used the vaccine in 1976. He was also the first person to identify the brood parasitism of the cuckoo. As the discoverer of small pox vaccine, Jenner helped save the lives of so many people. After his vaccine was successful, Edward was made the physician to King George IV and added as the member of the ‘Royal Society.’ He was also made the Mayor of Berkley for his wisdom and philanthropy. He also published a lot of work on vaccines, including ‘An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae’ (1798). He received many honors for his contribution to the world. We have curated some of some of Edward Jenner quotes inquiry, inspiration, fitness, health, men, science, vaccine, discovery, etc.
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A sincere acquiescence in the dispensations of Providence will check discompusure of mind beyond any thing. It will produce a calm in the midst of a storm.

A sincere acquiescence in the dispensations of Providence will check discompusure of mind beyond any thing. It will produce a calm in the midst of a storm.

Edward Jenner
I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

Edward Jenner

While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.

Edward Jenner
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

Edward Jenner
I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

Edward Jenner