Edward Jenner

     Edward Jenner (1749-1823), a country doctor, discovered the vaccination for small pox.  He opened a new field of medicine, the preventative medicine      I want to remember his determination to study cow diseases for 14 years to prevent small pox.  He got the idea from an off coment from a milk maid.  He was a country doctor who had studied with John Hunter who said "Don't just think - try." When he was bandaging up some cow pox, which was at its peak, on a milk maid,  he called in the maintence man's son.  He scratched the arm of the son.  He put some of the cow pox puss in his skin.  When the boy was vacaniated for small pox with a live, mild small pox, he showed no reaction.  His body had become immune to small pox.

     I would tell a friend that after five years of studying cow disesases he was proven wrong, but  he didn't give up.  He studied for another nine years and he was successful.