Q 01/05

In which Gloucestershire town was Edward Jenner born in 1749?

A) Berkeley

B) Cheltenham

C) Tewkesbury

D) Stroud

Answer · why

A) Berkeley

Edward Jenner was born in Berkeley, a small market town in the Vale of Berkeley, on 17 May 1749, and practised there for most of his life.

Q 02/05

Jenner declined a naturalist's post on whose second Pacific voyage?

A) James Cook

B) George Vancouver

C) William Bligh

D) Matthew Flinders

Answer · why

A) James Cook

After helping Joseph Banks arrange specimens from James Cook's first voyage, Jenner turned down an offer to sail as naturalist on Cook's second voyage...

Q 03/05

What procedure did the young Jenner undergo at school that affected his health for life?

A) Mercury treatment

B) Variolation against smallpox

C) Bloodletting for fever

D) Trepanning after a fall

Answer · why

B) Variolation against smallpox

Jenner underwent variolation against smallpox at about eight: weeks of bleeding, purging and fasting followed by deliberate infection with smallpox ma...

Q 04/05

At 13, Jenner was apprenticed for seven years to a surgeon in which town?

A) Wotton-under-Edge

B) Bristol

C) Cirencester

D) Chipping Sodbury

Answer · why

D) Chipping Sodbury

Jenner was apprenticed to Daniel Ludlow, a surgeon at Chipping Sodbury, for seven years before moving to London to study under a leading surgeon.

Q 05/05

Under which famous surgeon did Jenner train at a London hospital from 1770?

A) Astley Cooper

B) John Hunter

C) Percivall Pott

D) William Cheselden

Answer · why

B) John Hunter

John Hunter, the great experimental surgeon, took Jenner as a resident pupil at St George's Hospital in 1770 and remained his friend and correspondent...