JENNER, SIR WILLIAM, BART. (1815-1898), English physician, was born at Chatham on Jan. 3o, 1815, and educated at University college, London. In 1847, at the London Fever hos pital, he began 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 held many hospital appointments as a consultant. He was also successively Holme professor of clinical
medicine and professor of the principles and practice of medi cine at University college. He was president of the college of physicians (1881-88) ; he was elected F.R.S. in 1864, and re ceived honours and court appointments. In 1868 he was created a baronet. He died at Bishop's Waltham, Hants, on Dec. I I, 1898.