Jenner, SIR WILLIAM

Jenner, SIR WILLIAM, physician, was born at Chatham in 1815, and educated at University College, London, where he himself was professor from 1848 till 1879. He was appointed physician in ordinary to the Queen in 1862, and to the Prince of Wales in 1863; was made a baronet (1868), K.C.B. (1872), G.C.B. (1893), F.R.S., president of the College of Physicians, &c. It was he who established the difference between typhus and typhoid fevers (1851). See his Lectures on Fevers and Diphtheria (1893). He died 11th Dec. 1898.