{"web": "", "slide": "<p><img class=\"imgExhibit\" src=\"/Images/people/jenner.hut.jpg\">Whilst in London, Jenner received various job offers, including the post of naturalist on Captain Cook's second voyage. He turned them down to set up a practice in his home town of Berkeley in Gloucestershire, where he stayed for the rest of his life. He worked as a GP and surgeon, and would ride out on horseback as far as Bristol to make home visits.\n</p>\n<p>Although there was no public health provision at the time, from 1796 Jenner administered the smallpox vaccine to the poor of the area, free of charge.\n</p>\n<p>Jenner was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1789 for his paper on the nesting habits of cuckoos. He took a Doctor of Medicine degree at St. Andrews in 1792, and received an honorary Doctor of Medicine from Oxford in 1813.\n</p>", "sources": "<p class=\"sourcesHeading\">Teachers Notes</p><p><p>Although there was no public health provision at the time, from 1796 Jenner would administer the smallpox vaccine to the poor of the area, free of charge. This is the hut in Jenner's garden where he administered the smallpox vaccine to the local poor. Courtesy of The Jenner Museum.\n</p></p><br />", "Feedback": "", "title": "Medical Career"}