Edward Jenner
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- Created on: 29-09-17 11:49
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Inoculation:
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Small pox would leave families isolated especially for the poor
- Sufferers feared they would loose their job
- Chinese doctors developed a method of inoculation which involved spreading matter from a smallpox scab onto a cut in the skin
- This gave them a mild dose of the disease, protecting them from the full force of a severe attack
- This gradually spread through Asia and then to Turkey
- This gave them a mild dose of the disease, protecting them from the full force of a severe attack
- In Maidstone mass inoculations were carried out by Daniel Sutton during an epidemic in 1766
- Reverend John…
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