Editing Edward Jenner (section)

==Marriage and human medicine==
[[File:Edward Jenner, certificate of attendance at Wellcome L0020702.jpg|thumb|upright|A lecturer's certificate of attendance given to Jenner. He attended many lectures on chemistry, medicine and physics.]]

Jenner married Catherine Kingscote (who died in 1815 from [[tuberculosis]]) in March 1788. He might have met her while he and other fellows were experimenting with [[balloons]]. Jenner's trial balloon descended into [[Kingscote Park, Gloucestershire]], owned by Catherine's father Anthony Kingscote.<ref>Richard B. Fisher, ''Edward Jenner'' (Andre Deutsch, 1991) pp. 40–42 {{ISBN|978-023398681-4}}</ref> They had three children: Edward Robert (1789–1810), Robert Fitzharding (1792–1854) and Catherine (1794–1833).<ref name="JGFH2018">[http://dx.doi.org/10.24240/23992964.2017.1234513 ''The Journal of Genealogy and Family History''], Vol. 2, No. 1, page 23 Figure 2 (2018)</ref>

He earned his MD from the [[University of St Andrews]] in 1792.<ref>{{cite web|title=A brief history of the University | website=University of St Andrews | url=https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/history/brief/ | access-date=11 February 2018 | quote=Through the centuries many great minds have been attracted to St Andrews:...Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine (MD, 1792) }}</ref> He is credited with advancing the understanding of [[angina pectoris]].<ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.4997/JRCPE.2011.416 | volume=41 | title=A story of heartache: the understanding of angina pectoris in the pre-surgical period | year=2011 | journal=The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh | pages=361–365 | author=Beasley AW| issue=4 | pmid=22184576 | doi-access=free }}</ref> In his correspondence with Heberden, he wrote: "How much the heart must suffer from the coronary arteries not being able to perform their functions".<ref>Valentin Fuster, Eric J. Topol, Elizabeth G. Nabel (2005). "Atherothrombosis and Coronary Artery Disease". p. 8. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins {{ISBN|978-078173583-4}}</ref>