Case Study: Vaccination

• Smallpox was prevented using inoculations by cutting a patients arm and soaking it in smallpox pus - often killed people.
• Edward Jenner, a country doctor, realised milk maids contracted a milder form of smallpox called cowpox. Discovered that if you caught cowpox you wouldn't catch smallpox.
• In 1796, he gave James Phipps cowpox and then smallpox. He didn't contract cowpox and Jenner published his findings in 1798.
• The Government had a laissez-faire attitude to not get involved in people's lives.