Word: jenner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confining himself largely to the problems of Massachusetts, Dr. Russell reported that smallpox, once dreaded above all diseases, has now been beaten to a standstill. Thanks to universal application of the Jenner vaccine, introduced in 1800, the disease has very nearly disappeared from the State, the last small pox death occurring over five years...
Cows, the first subjects of vacination, leading the way to a medical practice which has meant so much to the world, are memorialized in a set of Staffordshire ware also on view. The set of china was presented by Dr. Edward jenner, English physician and discoverer of vaccination, to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, a member of the Harvard faculty from...
...Mother Superior of its heroines. His frugality; his apelike way of walking, with his shoulders stooped and his hands hanging about his knees, make him more of an enigma to Hollywood than Hollywood is to him. He defends it against its detractors, calls it busy, sane. His valet. Jenner, who has been with him for 25 years, brings him tea at 3:30 every day, sees that he quits work promptly at 4:30, says he has never seen George Arliss break a monocle. Worn first as an affectation, the Arliss eyeglass, which has ribbed a groove into his right...
...degree of LL.D. were: 1784, the Marquis de Lafayette: 1787, Thomas Jefferson; 1790, John-Jay; 1792, Samuel Adams of the class of 1740, Alexander Hamilton, and John Hancock of the class of 1754--1793, Samuel Philips of the class of 1771, the founder of Phillips Academy, Andover: 1803, Edward Jenner, the discoverer of Smallpox vaccine; 1806, John Marshall. Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court; 1810, Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, and Samuel Stanhope Smith, president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton); 1814, Harrison Gray Otis of the class of 1783; 1817, James Monroe; 1822, John...