| Davidson, Edward | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1894-1933. See: Davidson syringe. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Doisy, Edward | <person> U.S. Biochemist and Nobel laureate, 1893-1986. See: Allen-Doisy test, Allen-Doisy unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Edward Jenner | <person> Jenner was the typical country practitioner, who wanted to better himself by furthering his education. He enrolled as an anatomy house pupil of John Hunter. Although his city colleagues stamped him as a lazy and rather dull person, he actually was a highly intelligent country physician. He became cognisant that milk maids, who developed pustules on their hands from milking cows did not get smallpox. So he used Sarah Nelmes, a dairy maid with cowpox pustules, as his donor to inoculate (vaccinate) 8-year-old James Phipps on May 14, l796. (Why did not this maid receive her due recognition ?) He waited until July 1, 1796 (1-1/2 months) at which time he challenged the youngster with the smallpox virus. The boy was totally protected without any symptoms whatsoever. Jenner continued to inoculate the people in his vicinity including his own children. The recipients were then challenged with smallpox and complete protection was noted. Edward Jenner published his results of 123 cases in 1796, and his discovery was rapidly accepted and popularised. By 1800, more than 6,000 people had been vaccinated. Catherine the Great, the beautiful Czarina of Russia, received her inoculation, for which she paid 12,000 pounds. Variola is the medical term for smallpox, whereas Varicella is chicken pox. Lived: 1749-1823. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Edward's syndrome | <paediatrics, syndrome> A congenital disorder caused by a baby having an extra copy of chromosome 18 (three instead of the normal two). Characteristics of the disorder include a large number of different malformed organs and malformed physical features of the face and skeletal structure. In most cases, the child dies before it is born, 90% of babies born live die within a year of birth. Symptoms may be less severe when the trisomy occurs after fertilization during mitosis in the zygote (10% of cases), than when the trisomy occurs during the meiosis which produced the egg or sperm (90% of cases). (09 Oct 1997) |
| Ehlers, Edward | <person> A Danish dermatologist, 1863-1937. See: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Tuohy, Edward | <person> 20th century U.S. Anaesthesiologist. See: Tuohy needle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Janeway, Edward | <person> U.S. Physician, 1841-1911. See: Janeway lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Jellinek, Edward | <person> British physician specializing in alcohol-related disorders, 1890-1963. See: Jellinek formula. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Jenner, Edward | <person> Jenner was the typical country practitioner, who wanted to better himself by furthering his education. He enrolled as an anatomy house pupil of John Hunter. Although his city colleagues stamped him as a lazy and rather dull person, he actually was a highly intelligent country physician. He became cognisant that milk maids, who developed pustules on their hands from milking cows did not get smallpox. So he used Sarah Nelmes, a dairy maid with cowpox pustules, as his donor to inoculate (vaccinate) 8-year-old James Phipps on May 14, l796. (Why did not this maid receive her due recognition ?) He waited until July 1, 1796 (1-1/2 months) at which time he challenged the youngster with the smallpox virus. The boy was totally protected without any symptoms whatsoever. Jenner continued to inoculate the people in his vicinity including his own children. The recipients were then challenged with smallpox and complete protection was noted. Edward Jenner published his results of 123 cases in 1796, and his discovery was rapidly accepted and popularised. By 1800, more than 6,000 people had been vaccinated. Catherine the Great, the beautiful Czarina of Russia, received her inoculation, for which she paid 12,000 pounds. Variola is the medical term for smallpox, whereas Varicella is chicken pox. Lived: 1749-1823. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Tyson, Edward | <person> English anatomist, 1649-1708. See: Tyson's glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kennedy, Edward | <person> U.S. Dentist, *1883. See: Kennedy classification. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Klein, Edward | <person> Hungarian histologist, 1844-1925. See: Klein's muscle, Klein-Gumprecht shadow nuclei. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Flatau, Edward | <person> Polish neurologist, 1869-1932. See: Flatau-Schilder disease, Flatau's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lambert, Edward | <person> U.S. Physician, *1915. See: Lambert-Eaton syndrome, Eaton-Lambert syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Franklin, Edward | <person> U.S. Physician, *1928. See: Franklin's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |