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Edward Jenner was born on May 17, 1749, in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, the son of the Rev. Stephen Jenner, vicar of Berkeley. It was he, who discovered the cure for small pox.
The story of smallpox says that he spoke to a milkmaid who claimed that she would never suffer from smallpox since she had previously suffered from cowpox. Jenner investigated this and found that just as the milkmaid had said, anyone who had suffered from the fairly trivial cowpox, seemed to be immune from the far deadlier smallpox. He then started to experiment with creating what would later be called a "Vaccine". He took cultures from the scabs of cowpox and from it created a fluid which could be used to purposefully infect a patient with a less virile version of cowpox.
The weakened version of the cowpox vaccine was sufficiently related to the smallpox virus to allow cowpox infected patients immune systems to learn how to react to smallpox and create antibodies to fight off the infection.
In 1802 Jenner was awarded £10,000 by the British Parliament for the discovery and a few years later he was given a further £20,000 (A vast sum of money at that time). Even though he was now a wealthy man, Jenner continued with his experiments and developed his vaccination system. He suffered from a stroke in later life and eventually died January 26, 1823.
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How did edward Jenner cure smallpox?
he used a weaker version of the virus called cow pox to prevent small pox -Jeff Spearman
Why was edward Jenner given smallpox as a young man?
"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."
What did Edward Jenner create?
He gave a boy who didnt have smallpox, cow pox.
How did edward Jenner discover the smallpox vaccine?
Through a cow
What was Jenner's discovery?
He gave a boy who didnt have smallpox, cow pox.
How does the vaccine that contains cowpox virus prevent smallpox?
the cow pox and smallpox are the same thing. they give the body a tiny bit of the virus and let the body kill it immediately. the body gets so little of the virus that it can easily kill it, then it will become immune. the only thing is the side affects of this vaccine--stomach ache, nausea, pain, headache, and the seldom fate of death. in the early 1970's, the people got rid of most fatal side affects and it is now given to infants. now smallpox (cow pox) is virtually impossible to get the virus.
Who is an English physician who discovered vaccination in 1796?
Edward Jenner introduced a smallpox vaccine in 1796. He noticed that milkmaids rarely got smallpox and correctly surmised that exposure to cow pox was protecting them. After modifying the cow pox virus to make it less virulent he sucessfully showed that innoculation with it could prevent small pox infection. The word vaccination is derived from his work by taking the latin word for cow (vacca).
Why didn't James phipps catch smallpox?
James Phipps didn't catch smallpox because he'd already caught cow pox
What did edward jenner do to stop smallpox?
He took the blood from the cow and injected it into a person.
Cow in Latin?
The Latin word bos could be of either gender and mean either "bull" or "cow". If the ancient Romans wanted to say explicitly that the animal was female, they used the phrase bos femina, literally "female cattle".
What is the difference between cowpox and smallpox?
SmallpoxVery serious and contagious disease coming from virusesCowpoxEruptive skin disease that's contracted from direct contact with an ulcer on the teat of a cow
What does the smallpox vaccine have to do with cows?
The smallpox vaccine was developed by Edward Jenner, an English physician. He noticed that dairywomen who had caught cowpox - a related disease - did not catch smallpox. So he inoculated people with weakened cowpox, their bodies built up the antibodies to cowpox which then also protected them against smallpox.Cowpox is known as Variolae Vaccinae (vacca = cow in Latin) and hence the name.
