Edward Jenner creates one of the world's first vaccines using the pus from a cowpox blister. Now hold your arm out, this won't hurt at all!

Dr. Edward Jenner invented the first vaccine (the smallpox vaccine) in 1796. He discovered that people infected with cowpox were immune to smallpox and proceeded to test his discovery by ...

A section of cow horn, inscribed 'G C Jenner, 1825'; possibly a relic of a cow called 'Blossom' - the source of the first vaccination fluid. 'G C' is Edward Jenner's (1749-1823) nephew ...

It was quite a victory, then, when English physician Edward Jenner developed an inoculation against smallpox in 1796. Armed with the knowledge that milkmaids who had been exposed to cowpox ...

With his cowpox experiment, Dr Edward Jenner had just invented the first ever vaccine, so-called after the word ‘vacca’, which is Latin for ‘cow’. His dalliances down on the farm with the ...