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1
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Who discovered the “vaccination”

A

Dr Edward Jenner

2
Q

What disease did he treat with this vaccination?

A

small pox

3
Q

When did he carry out the vaccination experiment?

A

in 1776 on a small boy called James Phipps.

4
Q

What did he use to develop this vaccination?

A

Pus from a cowpox sore.

5
Q

How did he discover this cure?

A

Girls who milked cows didn’t get small pox only mild illness called cowpox.

6
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Who was Louis Pasteur

A

French Scientist from the 1800’s

7
Q

What did Pasteur develop?

A

a “germ theory”

8
Q

How did Pasteur discover germs?

A

by looking at beer through a microscope and saw millions of tiny things, he heated the beer and killed them.

9
Q

What is Tuberculosis often refered to?

A

TB

10
Q

What does tuberculosis affect?

A

a persons lungs, makes them cough a lot.

11
Q

Who discovered tuberculosis?

A

Robert Koch from Germany

12
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When did Koch identify the T.B. bacteria?

A

in 1882

13
Q

Who performed the worlds first heart transplant

A

Dr Chris Barnard

14
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What year did Chris Barnard perform the first heart transplant?

A

1967

15
Q

Who was the first person to have a heart transplant?

A

Louis Washkansky, he lived for 18 days after the surgery

he died from a lung infection