Jenner

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  • Jenner
    • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu learnt about inoculation in Turkey
      • Making a cut I'm a patient's arm and soaking it in pus taken from the swelling of someone with the disease
    • Country doctor in Gloucestershire
    • used careful scientific methods
    • Jenner investigated and discovered that cowpox victims didn't get smallpox
    • 1796- tested his theory and injected James Phipps. The pus was from Sarah Nelmes
    • His work was published in 1798.
    • Vacca- Latin for cow
    • Work faced opposition. Became compulsory In 1853. Approved by parliament in 1802. Gave him 20,000 pounds

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