Statues - Hither & Thither

Edward Jenner MD FRS
1749-1823
Country Doctor Who Benefited Mankind

In Jenner;s time smallpox was a dreaded disease
worldwide and caused many deaths particularly of
children. Survivors were left badly scarred and
often blinded or deformed.

In 1796 Jenner vaccinated James Phipps with
cowpox and showed that the boy was then immune
to smallpox. He predicted the worldwie eradication
of smallpox. This was finally achieved in 1980.

Jenner was born, practised and died in Berkeley
Gloucestershire and studied at St. George's
Hospital, London.

This plaque was funded and placed here by
the friends of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens,
The Jenner Educational Trust and
St. George's Hospital Medical School in 1996,
the Bicentennial Anniversary of Jenner's discovery.