Jennerfest
The Jennerfest , also called Jenner-Fest or Jennerfeier , is a celebration usually held annually by doctors on May 14th , during which the English doctor Edward Jenner and the first successful vaccination against him on May 14th, 1796 Smallpox was made (to James Phipps ).
The day of the Jenner Festival in 1829 was determined by the doctor Louis Stromeyer as the founding date of the Hannover Medical Association .
literature
- Ludwig Pfeiffer : For the Jenner celebration on May 14, 1896. Medals, portraits and illustrations, concerning E. Jenner, the Variolation, the Vaccination and the Vaccine , Verlag der H. Laupp'schen Buchhandlung, Tübingen 1896; Digitized via archive.org
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Klaus Mlynek : Medical Association Hanover. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 14f .; limited preview in Google Book search
- ^ Adolph Carl Peter Callisen : Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living doctors, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists , Vol. 9: His - Jos , Copenhagen: on commission in the Royal Deaf-Mute Institute in Schleswig, with Carl Knobloch in Leipzig and with Reitzel in Copenhagen, 1832, p. 255; Digitized via Google books
- ↑ Compare Ludwig Pfeiffer: Zur Jennerfeier des May 14, 1896. Medals, portraits and illustrations, concerning E. Jenner, the Variolation, the Vaccination and the Vaccine , Verlag der H. Laupp'schen Buchhandlung, Tübingen 1896; Digitized via archive.org