Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet

Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet (January 30 1815 – December 11 1898) was a significant English physician primarily known for having discovered the distinction between typhus and typhoid.

Jenner was born at Chatham on January 30 1815, and educated at University College London. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1837, and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1852, and in 1844 took the London M.D. In 1847 he began at the London Fever Hospital investigations into cases of continued fever which enabled him finally to make the distinction between typhus and typhoid on which his reputation as a pathologist principally rests. In 1849 he was appointed professor of pathological anatomy at University College, and also assistant physician to University College Hospital, where he afterwards became physician (1854-1876) and consulting physician (1879), besides holding similar appointments at other hospitals. He was also successively Holme Professor of Clinical Medicine and professor of the principles and practice of medicine at University College London. He was president of the Royal College of Physicians (1881-1888); was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1864, and received honorary degrees from the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and University of Edinburgh. In 1861 he was appointed Physician Extraordinary, and in 1862 Physician in Ordinary, to Queen Victoria, and in 1863 Physician in Ordinary to the Prince of Wales; he attended both the prince consort and the prince of Wales in their attacks of typhoid fever. In 1868 he was created a baronet. As a consultant, Sir William Jenner had a great reputation, and he left a large fortune when he died, at Bishop's Waltham, Hants, on December 11 1898, having then retired from practice for eight years owing to failing health.

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