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what did Edward Jenner do?
developed a vaccine for
smallpox
how many did smallpox kill a year?
400,000
what did Edward Jenner test?
contaminating
James Phipps
with
cowpox
and then giving him
smallpox
was Edward Jenners test successful?
yes
, James Phipps
did not die
from the smallpox
what year did the government make the smallpox vaccine compulsory?
1852
why did the smallpox vaccine not lead to other vaccines?
people still didn't know
bacteria
caused disease
what year did the government fine parents for not having children vaccinated?
1871
what did the smallpox vaccine do?
lower amount of
deaths
and wiped out smallpox all together in
1970s
why did people not follow the smallpox vaccine?
Jenner
didn't know
why his vaccine worked
Jenner was a
rural
doctor so he wasn't
believed
inoculation
was already being carried out
what was inoculation?
inserting a piece of the
disease
in an
open wound
to gain
immunity
is vaccination a treatment or prevention?
prevention
what was a new theory of the cause of disease?
spontaneous generation
what was spontaneous generation?
they thought
rotting
and
decay
caused
germs
who was Louis Pasteur?
a
French
scientist
what was Louis Pasteurs theory?
germ theory
what was germ theory?
the theory that
germs
in the
air
affect the human body
what was Louis Pasteurs experiment?
he left
wine
and
vinegar
out and it went
off
why did the wine and vinegar go off?
because the
microbes
in the air caused it to begin to
decay
what did Louis Pasteur think germs did?
cause
disease
when did Louis Pasteur conduct his experiment?
1861
when did Louis Pasteur publish the results for his experiment?
1878
(
17
years later)
what was Pasteur trying to disprove?
spontaneous generation
why did germ theory have limited influence?
Pasteur was not a
doctor
people refused to recognise the
link
between
germs
and
disease
more well respected doctors promoted
other ideas
what did Robert koch do?
stained
microbes
with
industrial dyes
what did staining microbes do?
showed that different
germs
caused different
diseases
who was Robert koch?
a
German
scientist
how many new diseases did koch discover?
21
what bacteria did koch discover and when?
TB
in
1882
when did koch win a Nobel prize?
1905
what animals did koch test on?
mice
and
chickens
what did koch do to the mice and chickens?
injected mice with
anthrax bacteria
injected chicken with
cholera
this made them
immune
Koch influenced many people such as
Roberts
,
Tyndall
and
Cheyenne
due to kochs work doctors began to study the
disease
rather than the
symptoms
what was koch named?
father of bacteriology
how many hospitals were left after Henry VIII dissolved the monastries and where were they all?
5
in
london
as
more
people began to attend hospitals they became more
unsanitary
and refused less
infectious
people
what did Florence nightingale do?
train nurses in
hygiene
and promoted
cleanliness
and
sanitation
in hospitals
what did nightingale follow?
pavilion plan
what was nightingale nicknamed?
lady of the lamp
what were some steps nightingale followed?
cleaned
everywhere
good
food
fresh
sheets
ventilation
beds
2m apart
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