The application of science to the prevention of disease
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- Created on: 09-06-19 14:03
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- the application of science to the prevention of disease in the late 18th-19th centuries.
- Smallpox and Innoculation
- Smallpox and Vaccination
- developed by Edward Jenner.
- experimented to find out why milkmaids with cowpox didn't suffer from smallpox.
- 1796 - James Phipps injected with pus from the sores of cowpox.
- he developed cowpox.
- given a dosage of smallpox
- didn't develop smallpox.
- 1979 - WHO declared smallpox extinct.
- spread by coughing, sneezing personal contact.
- spreading matter from infected scab onto open wound of healthy person.
- mild dosage of the disease that they'd be able to fight off.
- mild dosage of the disease that they'd be able to fight off.
- not completely safe.
- some patients died.
- Smallpox and Vaccination
- Smallpox and Innoculation
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