public health gcse vaccination and germ theory
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- how science and technology has affected public health
- germ theory
- Pasteur was the first to suggest germs caused disease
- French chemist, louis Pasteur
- he blamed the souring of sugar beet on germs when he was hired to find an explanation in 1857
- he proved there were germs in the air
- he showed that sterilised water in a closed flask stayed sterile
- while sterilised water in an open flask bred germs
- he showed that sterilised water in a closed flask stayed sterile
- in 1861 he published his germ theory
- in it he argued that microbes in the air caused decay not the other way around
- he also suggested that some germs caused disease
- in 1867 he published evidence proving there was link between germs and disease
- he demonstrated that germs caused a disease in silkworks
- helped public health as now people know to wash their hands to avoid germs
- science and technology in public health
- vaccination
- Edward Jenner, born 1749, country doctor, gloucestershire
- discovered that people who got cowpox couldn't get smallpox
- tested theory by injecting small boy, James Phipps with cowpox from a milkmaid, sarah nelmes
- found james didnt catch smallpox
- tested theory by injecting small boy, James Phipps with cowpox from a milkmaid, sarah nelmes
- jenner published his findings in 1798, coined the word vaccination from latin word for cow
- jenner faced opposition to his vaccine
- vaccination became compulsory in 1853
- jenners discovery got approval from parliament
- in 1802 he was given £10,000 to open a vaccination clinic
- in 1840 vaccination against smallpox was made free for infants
- in 1853 it was made compulsory
- the vaccine was a success and contributed to a big fall in the number of smallpox cases in britain.
- vaccination
- germ theory
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