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JENNER, SIR WILLIAM, BART

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 321 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JENNER, See also:SIR See also:WILLIAM, See also:BART . (1815-1898), See also:English physician, was See also:born at See also:Chatham on the 3oth of See also:January 1815, and educated at University See also:College, See also:London. He became M.R.C.S. in 1837, and F.R.C.P. in 1852, and in 1844 took the London M.D. In 1847 he began at the London See also:fever See also:hospital investigations into cases of " continued " fever which enabled him finally to make the distinction between typhus and typhoid on which his reputation as a pathologist principally rests. In 1849 he was appointed See also:professor of pathological See also:anatomy at University College, and also assistant physician to University College Hospital, where he afterwards became physician (1854-1876)and consultingphysician (1879), besides holding similar appointments at other hospitals. He was also successively Holme professor of clinical See also:medicine and professor of the principles and practice of medicine at University College. He was See also:president of the college of physicians (1881-1888) ; he was elected F.R.S. in 1864, and received honorary degrees from See also:Oxford, See also:Cambridge and See also:Edinburgh. In 1861 he was appointed physician extraordinary, and in 1862 physician in See also:ordinary, to See also:Queen See also:Victoria, and in 1863 physician in ordinary to the See also:prince of See also:Wales; he attended both the prince See also:consort and the prince of Wales in their attacks of typhoid fever. In 1868 he was created a See also:baronet. As a consultant Sir William Jenner had a See also:great reputation, and he See also:left a large See also:fortune when he died, at See also:Bishop's See also:Waltham, Hants, on the 11th of See also:December 1898, having then retired from practice for eight years owing to failing See also:health.

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