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"When he was young he was given smallpox on purpose. It was hoped that, because he was so young and healthy, he would survive and so live to tell the tale if he caught smallpox when he was older."
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∙ 10y agoJenner got the idea to treat smallpox by using cowpox because he noticed that women called milkmaids had clear skins. It turned out that they had gotten cowpox. And that cowpox protected them against smallpox. The 1st vaccine for smallpox was not actually a vaccine but a small cowpox lesion from a cow. It was inserted into the skin of the person being vaccinated.
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Edward Jenner (1749–1823) was given smallpox on purpose. The idea was that by giving it to people when they were young, fit and healthy they would survive better than if they caught it when they were older.
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∙ 12y agoNo Edward Jenner was not given smallpox as a young boy he tried it on a boy called James.
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Who discovered the first vaccine?
Edward Jenner created the first vaccine to be widely used in 1796; others had done the same before him, but their discoveries were not well-known. Jenner found that milkmaids infected with cowpox did not get smallpox. He tested this theory on a young boy, first exposing him to cowpox, then smallpox. The boy did not develop smallpox, and Jenner's work was published widely.
What was Edward Jenner's theory for vaccinations and viruses?
he found out that if you have had cow pox you will never have smallpox so he took some puss out of a cowpox spot and injected a young boy called James Phipps 8 weeks later the young boy was fine and never had smallpox. this was called a vaccination. :P
Who created the world's first vaccine?
Edward Jenner He noticed that people who had cowpox did not suffer from smallpox. He found a young boy whose family had smallpox and inserted the pus from a cowpox pustule into a cut. The boy survived.
What was edward Jenner's contribution to science?
Edward Jenner was born in 1749, in Berkeley. He wanted to get rid of small pox for ever so he carried out a simple experiment, which turned out to change everyone's lives for the better. Edward Jenner noticed that cows sometimes got a disease called cowpox. Because the milkmaids had to milk the cows, they often also caught cowpox…but it didn't seem to harm them. Edward Jenner was intrigued - milkmaids that had caught cowpox never seemed to catch the contagious and deadly smallpox, which thousands of people died from. Edward Jenner came up with a theory, that cowpox prevented people from getting smallpox. To test his theory, Edward Jenner needed to find someone who was young and who hadn't caught smallpox or cowpox before. He found a boy called James Phipps (aged 8) and explained his idea. Edward Jenner then took some pus from a milkmaid's cowpox and rubbed it into two small incisions on James's arm. Soon after, James became ill with cowpox but the symptoms didn't last long. 6 weeks later, Jenner took some pus from a smallpox victim and again put it into James's cuts. However, this time James didn't catch the disease. Cowpox was called vaccinia so he called his invention the vaccine.
How did Edward Jenner try out his cowpox experiment?
Edward Jenner was a country doctor who had studied nature and his natural surroundings since childhood. He had always been fascinated by the rural old wives tale that milkmaids could not get smallpox. He believed that there was a connection between the fact that milkmaids only got a weak version of smallpox - the non-life threatening cowpox - but did not get smallpox itself. A milkmaid who caught cowpox got blisters on her hands and Jenner concluded that it must be the pus in the blisters that somehow protected the milkmaids. Jenner decided to try out a theory he had developed. A young boy called James Phipps would be his guinea pig. He took some pus from cowpox blisters found on the hand of a milkmaid called Sarah. She had milked a cow called Blossom and had developed the tell-tale blisters. Jenner 'injected' some of the pus into James. This process he repeated over a number of days gradually increasing the amount of pus he put into the boy. He then deliberately injected Phipps with smallpox. James became ill but after a few days made a full recovery with no side effects. It seemed that Jenner had made a brilliant discovery.
Who made the first influenza vaccine?
The first vaccine is the virus cowpox (the latin word for cow is vacca, hence vaccine). It produces a very mild and harmless infection in people but protects them from smallpox, one of the most deadly diseases in history. Today, smallpox has been eradicated from the wild due to a worldwide effort to vaccinate enough people to wipe it out.
Did edward Jenner have a famaliy?
Yes he had a mother and father who died when he was young, the his older brother took care of him
Who was Edward Jenner and what did he do with vaccination?
I'm studying edward Jenner for my history exam on my birthday (': I'm in year 9 but this is what i know so far (: Edward Jenner was born in 1749 and passed away in 1823. He wasn't a popular man before his discoveries, where after he was named the 'Fathe Of Immunisation'. This meant that he was obviously a wealthy man by the end of his time. Edward Jenner spent a lot of his time looking back at the discoveries of older medical phenomenons (excuse the spelling) and hardly ever developed any ideas himself. This was until he found out some interesting information about cowpox. He found out that a small dosage of either cowpox or smallpox would prevent and stop the spreading of a larger disease in smallpox. He tested his idea on a young boy named James Phipps, and there after his ideas were published and known worldwide. Of course, not everybody loved Jenner, as there were some people called Inoculators, who were very angry about this. Inoculators were people who came people inoculations, a type of injection using a different disease to stop or prevent spreading of smallpox, and now, after Jenner's ideas, these people were no longer needed anymore! Anyway, I hope this stuff it okay (: Zamboogie (History Geek)
Who were the early pioneers in vaccinations?
Some well-known pioneers:Louis PasteurPasteur wrote "the germs of microscopic organisms abound in the surface of all objects, in the air and in water." He figured out these microorganisms could be killed by heating liquid (55 C/130 F) for short periods of time, which is known as pasteurization, i.e., used for milk. With his work in microbiology, He showed that diseases (like rabies) could be prevented by vaccination (a term created by Pasteur!), that is, injecting an organism with weakened forms of the disease, thus opening up the field of Immunology.Edward JennerJenner observed that for some odd reason milkmaids did not get smallpox. He speculated that the pus in the blisters they got from cowpox (they were around cows all day) protected them from smallpox.In 1796, Jenner tested his theory: He inoculated a young boy with the pus from cowpox blisters (he extracted from the hand of a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow) and lo and behold! There we have our first smallpox vaccination!
Why the milkmaids did not get infected with smallpox?
Well, I think it is the case that cowpox is just a lesser, bovine version of smallpox. Milk maids would get cowpox simply because they were exposed to cattle constantly, much more than the average person, who was more likely to get smallpox than cowcox. A scientist called Edward Jenner observed that milk maids, who often got cowpox, never seemed to get smallpox. This was because milk maids would develop immunity to cowpox (and therefore smallpox) once they had fallen ill and recovered from cowpox. He then tested this theory on a young boy. He did this by injecting cowpox into the boy's blood stream; the boy then fell ill with cowpox. After the boy recovered from cowpox, the scientist then injected him with the life-threatening disease smallpox. The result proved his theory right; the injection of smallpox into the boy's bloodstream had had no effect on him, because his body had developed immunity to the disease. If you wish to learn more about vaccination and immunities, then research antibodies, antigens and vaccination and the way in which they all work.
What is Edward Young's birthday?
Edward Young was born on July 3, 1683.
When did Edward B. Young die?
Edward B. Young died in 1867.
