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
Brianne Jenner a former Calgary Inferno defenseman, in Canada. Brianne Jenner Brianne Alexandra Jenner (born May 4, 1991) is a Canadian ice hockey player and a member of Canada's national women's hockey team. She made her debut for the team at the 2010 Four Nations Cup and won a gold medal. She is also a member of the Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey program. In high school, Jenner was the captain of the Appleby College hockey team. Before playing with Cornell, Jenner played with the PWHL's Mississauga Chiefs. She was also the captain of Team Ontario Red at the 2008 National