Members dined together and read papers on medical subjects. Jenner and others formed the Fleece Medical Society or Gloucestershire Medical Society, so called because it met in the parlour of the Fleece Inn, Rodborough, Gloucestershire. In 1792, "with twenty years' experience of general practice and surgery, Jenner obtained the degree of MD from the University of St Andrews". Returning to his native countryside by 1773, Jenner became a successful family doctor and surgeon, practising on dedicated premises at Berkeley.
William Osler records that Hunter gave Jenner William Harvey's advice, well known in medical circles (and characteristic of the Age of Enlightenment), "Don't think try." Hunter remained in correspondence with Jenner over natural history and proposed him for the Royal Society. In 1770, aged 21, Jenner became apprenticed in surgery and anatomy under surgeon John Hunter and others at St George's Hospital, London. Jenner's 1802 testimonial to the efficacy of vaccination, signed by 112 members of the Physical Society, London In 2002, Jenner was named in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons. In the field of zoology, he was among the first modern scholars to describe the brood parasitism of the cuckoo ( Aristotle also noted this behaviour in his History of Animals). In 1821, he was appointed physician to King George IV, and was also made mayor of Berkeley and justice of the peace. : 100 In Jenner's time, smallpox killed around 10% of global population, with the number as high as 20% in towns and cities where infection spread more easily. In the West, Jenner is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have saved "more lives than any other man". He used it in 1798 in the title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox, in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae ('pustules of the cow'), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. Edward Jenner, FRS FRCPE ( – 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine.
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