Edward Jenner

• Inoculation: A way of preventing a person from getting a dangerous form of the disease by giving the person the disease in a controlled way.
• The idea of inoculation was first brought to England by Lady Montague.
• Jenner

  • Scientific method: spirit of enquiry.
  • Cowpox meant you couldn't get smallpox.
  • James Phipps - given cowpox, then smallpox and didn't contract smallpox.
  • Names it vaccination coming from the Latin word 'vacca' meaning cow.
• In 1853 (industrial revolution) the government made the smallpox vaccination compulsory.