Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet

Sir William Jenner ( born January 30, 1815 in Chatham, Kent, † December 11, 1898 in Greenwood, Hampshire ) was a British neurologist and doctor. He discovered the difference between typhoid and typhus.

Life

William Jenner was educated at University College in London and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons (1837 ) and the Royal College of Physicians (1852 ). His training as a doctor, he finished 1844. 1847 he began his work at the London Fever Hospital, where he also discovered the difference between typhoid fever ( typhoid fever ) and typhus ( typhoid typhoid or the mildest ambulatorius ). In 1849 he was appointed professor of pathological anatomy at University College London ( one of his students there was Sir William Richard Gowers ) and assistant physician at University College Hospital appointed. He worked there from 1854 onwards as a doctor, as in the Children's Hospital was founded in 1852 Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1860 he received the Holme Professor of Clinical Medicine. Between 1881 and 1888 he was president of the Royal College of Physicians; In 1864 he was appointed a member of the Royal Society. He received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University, Cambridge University and the University of Edinburgh. In 1862 he was the physician of Queen Victoria; 1863 The Prince of Wales and cured him from typhus. In 1868 he was appointed a baronet.