Edward Jenner Flashcards
(4 cards)
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Doings of Jenner
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- Used observation from milk maids not getting smallpox, but a less severe version called cow pox to create vaccine for smallpox by inoculating cowpox.
- Experimented in depth to ensure vaccines were viable (e.g. James Phipps and 23 others).
2
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Significance of Jenner
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- Safer alternative to inoculation.
- Led to eradication of smallpox in 1979.
- Later explained and built on by Pasteur and Koch to make other vaccinations.
3
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Insignificance of Jenner
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- Opposed by many (e.g. church saw it as unnatural to use animal diseases to treat humans, royal society were skeptical and inoculators opposed this in fear of losing profit).
- Idea was not essentially new (e.g. inoculation)
- Lack of understanding why vaccinations worked which meant other scientists weren’t able to build on ideas and other diseases could not be treated.
4
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Time of impact for Jenner
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1798 or late 1700s
