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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 October 2014
      04 July 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139626613
      9781108063487
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139626613
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      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.23kg, 178 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
      Subjects:
      Epidemiology Public Health and Medical Statistics, Medicine, History, History of Medicine
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
    Subjects:
    Epidemiology Public Health and Medical Statistics, Medicine, History, History of Medicine
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    Active in fields spanning medicine, ornithology, zoology and even watercolour painting, Frederick Dawtrey Drewitt (1848–1942) was a prominent fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, exhibited at the Royal Academy, and was involved in governing the National Trust. His particular interest in birds led him to study the work of the physician and naturalist Edward Jenner (1749–1823), who contributed to the field of ornithology through his observations of the cuckoo's behaviour. Jenner is better known, however, as the 'father of immunology' for pioneering the smallpox vaccination - the word 'vaccine' comes from the Latin vacca (cow) as Jenner used the cowpox virus to inoculate against smallpox infection in humans. Drewitt had general readers in mind when he wrote about Jenner's extraordinary life and growing worldwide recognition. The first edition of this biography was published in 1931, and this enlarged second edition appeared in 1933.

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