Editing Edward Jenner (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Edward Jenner manuscript.jpg|thumb|upright|Jenner's handwritten draft describing the first vaccination is held at the [[Royal College of Surgeons]] in London]]
Edward Jenner was born on 17 May 1749<ref name="About Edward Jenner"/> in [[Berkeley, Gloucestershire]], England as the eighth of nine children.<ref name="JGFH2018"/> His father, the [[The Reverend|Reverend]] Stephen Jenner, was the [[vicar]] of Berkeley, so Jenner received a strong basic education.<ref name="About Edward Jenner"/>

=== Education and training ===
[[File:Edward Jenner, testimonial to the efficacy of vaccination. Wellcome L0020705.jpg|thumb|upright|Jenner's 1802 testimonial to the efficacy of vaccination, signed by 112 members of the [[Physical Society of London|Physical Society, London]]]]

When he was young, he went to school in [[Wotton-under-Edge]] at Katherine Lady Berkeley's School and in [[Cirencester]].<ref name="About Edward Jenner">{{cite web |url=https://www.jenner.ac.uk/about/edward-jenner |title=About Edward Jenner |work=The Jenner Institute |access-date=12 April 2020}}</ref> During this time, he was [[inoculation|inoculated]] (by [[variolation]]) for [[smallpox]], which had a lifelong effect upon his general health.<ref name="About Edward Jenner"/> At the age of 14, he was apprenticed for seven years to Daniel Ludlow, a [[surgeon]] of [[Chipping Sodbury]], South Gloucestershire, where he gained most of the experience needed to become a surgeon himself.<ref name="About Edward Jenner"/>

In 1770, aged 21, Jenner became apprenticed in surgery and anatomy under surgeon [[John Hunter (surgeon)|John Hunter]] and others at [[St George's Hospital]], London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jennermuseum.com/Jenner/youngedward.html|title=Young Edward Jenner, Born in Berkeley|work=Edward Jenner Museum|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914084340/http://www.jennermuseum.com/Jenner/youngedward.html|archive-date=14 September 2012|access-date=4 September 2012}}</ref> [[William Osler]] records that Hunter gave Jenner [[William Harvey]]'s advice, well known in medical circles (and characteristic of the [[Age of Enlightenment]]), "Don't think; try."<ref name="Loncarek"/> Hunter remained in correspondence with Jenner over [[natural history]] and proposed him for the [[Royal Society]]. Returning to his native countryside by 1773, Jenner became a successful [[general practitioner|family doctor]] and surgeon, practising on dedicated premises at Berkeley. In 1792, "with twenty years' experience of general practice and surgery, Jenner obtained the degree of MD from the [[University of St Andrews]]".<ref name=Baxbydnb />

=== Later life ===
Jenner and others formed the Fleece Medical Society or Gloucestershire Medical Society, so called because it met in the parlour of the Fleece Inn, [[Rodborough]], Gloucestershire. Members dined together and read papers on medical subjects. Jenner contributed papers on [[angina pectoris]], [[ophthalmia]], and cardiac valvular disease and commented on [[cowpox]]. He also belonged to a similar society which met in [[Alveston]], near Bristol.<ref>[http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=7135&inst_id=8 "Papers at the Royal College of Physicians summarised"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107144243/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=7135&inst_id=8 |date=7 November 2017 }}.</ref>

He became a master [[Freemasonry|mason]] on  30 December 1802, in Lodge of Faith and Friendship #449. From 1812 to 1813, he served as worshipful master of Royal Berkeley Lodge of Faith and Friendship.<ref>[http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/jenner_e/jenner_e.html "Edward Jenner biography"]. Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon A.F. & A. M. Retrieved 22 August 2016</ref>