Medicine + Surgery: Key Individuals in Medicine: Jenner, Pasteur and Koch
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- Created on: 08-06-10 11:44
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Edward Jenner:
- Vaccination
- Smallpox
- 1750-1800 40,000 died a year
- fever/headaches/rash/pus filled boils
- Replaced Inoculation
- brought back from Turkey by Lady Montague
- skin scratched with actual disease
- Inoculation stables
- inoculated then quarantined
- For
- only method available
- if worked, cheaper than supporting widows and orphans
- Against
- very risky
- many died/left blind/deaf
- could cause epidemic
- Experiment
- 1796 took cowpox pus from dairy maid Sarah Nelmes
- noticed didn't catch smallpox if had caught cowpox
- passed onto 8yr old James Phipps
- allowed side effects to pass
- inoculated with smallpox
- repeated experiment 25 times then published his findings
- scientific/fate/chance
- For
- worked
- smallpox virtually eradicated
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- worked
- Against
- wasn't free
- poor couldn't afford
- superstition
- afraid might turn into cows
- took time and money to be…
- wasn't free
- 1796 took cowpox pus from dairy maid Sarah Nelmes
- Smallpox
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