chapter 6- prevention of disease

• what are the symptoms of small pox ?

  • fever
  • headache
  • rash
  • pus filled blisters
• what is an innoculation ?

  • giving someone a mild dose of disease to build up resistance
  • dried scabs were scratched into skin or blown up the nose
• what were the problems with innoculation ?

  • it would be considered going against god's will
  • innoculated people could still pass smallpox
• what is cowpox ?

  a milder version of smallpox
• what did Edward Jenner do ?

  • he had heard that milkmaids who got cowpox could not contract smallpox
  • he gave a small boy cowpox
  • and then a smallpox innoculation and no disease followed
• what were the problems with Jenner's vaccine ?

  • he could not explain how it worked
  • other doctors profitted from innoculation
  • attempts to repeat the technique failed & snobbery was against Jenner
• what was good about the vaccine ?

  • it was more effective than innoculation
  • members of the royal family became vaccinated
• when was Jenner's vaccine made compulsory ?

  1853
• when was Jenner's vaccine discovered ?

  1796