Smallpox 1718. In 1721, Cotton Mather and colleagues provoked controversy in Boston by inoculating hundreds. In 1796, Edward Jenner, a doctor in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, rural England, discovered that immunity to smallpox could be produced by inoculating a person with material from a cowpox lesion. Cowpox is a poxvirus in the same family as variola. Jenner called the material used for inoculation vaccine, from the root word "vacca", which is Latin for cow. The procedure was much safer than variolation, and did not involve a risk of smallpox transmission. Vaccination to prevent smallpox was soon practiced all over the world. During the
Greg Jenner Phone Age" in which he described how routines and habits today had their genesis in the past as well as highlighting contrasts in every day routines through the ages. Jenner has written for "GQ" magazine and has appeared as a guest on "Richard Herring's interview podcasts" Jenner has appeared as a guest on the "Art Detective" podcast. Jenner appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme "Great Lives" discussing Gene Kelly. He has appeared more than once as a guest on "QI" spin-off podcast "No Such Thing as a Fish". Jenner has appeared as a guest on the Simon Mayo and