Edward Jenner and Smallpox
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- Edward Jenner & smallpox
- Impact of work
- Book - 17898
- made vaccination noticed
- more effective and less dangerous than inoculation
- proved through scientific methods
- 1800's - techniques used by doctors in America and Europe
- 1853 - UK gov. made vaccination compulsory
- Work
- 1796
- experimented in gloucestershire
- on young boy
- resulted in no disease
- on young boy
- experimented in gloucestershire
- Cowpox - milder version of small pox
- 1796
- Before his work
- Inoculation
- Scratched scabs & put onto healthy skin
- Robert & Daniel Sutton
- devised easier method
- Problems
- Religious objection - disease sent as sin
- poorest couldn't afford - not protected
- germs + infection not understood
- could cause death
- Inoculation
- Opposition to change
- Jenner couldn't explain how it worked
- difficult to accept
- disliked - many profited from inoculation
- London Smallpox Hospital concluded he was wrong
- their equipment was contaminated
- Jenner couldn't explain how it worked
- Impact of work
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