Dr. Jaffrey

Ottawa Journal (30 Oct 1918:4) (dated Oct 28) - “ Hamilton has every reason to feel proud...has brought such distinction on the city… " Fredericton Gleaner (2 Nov 1918) – “No man has stepped to the front more rapidly than Dr. W. Reginald Jaffrey …" Dr. Wm Reginald Jaffrey  made one of the earliest medical achievements  of the pandemic of 1918, having created and used both an experimental vaccine and a convalescent plasma serum , and was one of the small handful of doctors globally to do this work. He was a skilled and keen experimental scientist, pathologist and bacteriologist, and he had studied immunology extensively, such as it was in the day. It's no wonder he did what he did. His dramatic story was played out it the press in the fall of 1918. William Reginald Jaffrey  was born in 1889 in Fredericton NB, where his family helped to shape New Brunswick history. His father William was a farmer, furniture maker and Fredericton city Magistrate. His gra