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
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu learnt about inoculation in Turkey
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