I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

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Jenner was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1788 following his publication of a careful study of the previously misunderstood life of the nested cuckoo that combined observation experiment and dissection. See also
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Inoculation.

Edward Anthony Jenner FRS (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist from Berkeley Gloucestershire who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine.