Edward Jenner

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Inoculation:

  • 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
  • In Maidstone mass inoculations were carried out by Daniel Sutton during an epidemic in 1766
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