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JAMA. 1970;214(5):907-908.

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William Jenner, physician to Queen Victoria, was born at Chatham, England, and received his early schooling at the dockyard town of Rochester where Charles Dickens had spent his early years.¹ Jenner began his medical education at the University of London followed by an apprenticeship in Regent's Park. He became a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1837 and a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England shortly after. He immediately started general practice and later served as surgeon-accoucheur to the Royal Maternity Charity. However, in 1844, the year Jenner graduated doctor of medicine at the university, he changed his professional course. After four years of study of pathology, he was elected a member of the Royal College of Physicians and in 1849 was appointed professor of pathologic anatomy at University College. When the Hospital for Sick Children was established (1852), Jenner was appointed its first physician . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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