Edward Jenner

He gave a boy who didnt have smallpox, cow pox.

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)

He developed a slight fever but after he was injected, he was fine

No: he created a vaccine against smallpox. This eventually resulted in the successful Intensified Smallpox Eradication Programme, involving the extensive distribution of the vaccine. In July 1978, the World Health Organization announced the successful eradication of the smallpox strain Variola Minor. The last natural case of the more deadly strain, Variola Major, had occurred several years earlier, in 1975.

He tested it on an 8 year old boy and on some of his children.

he was a scientist

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.

· He noticed that milkmaids, frequently exposed to cowpox from milking animals, were immune to smallpox.

· He infected an eight year old boy named James Phipps with smallpox inoculation, but using material from a cowpox pustule. He was completely unaffected.

· Discovered vaccination for small pox

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Observation and deductive reasoning. Smallpox was a scourge during Jenner's time, but he noticed that milkmaids contracted a very mild illness similar to smallpox called "cowpox", from which they recovered easily. He postulated that a tiny bit of the cowpox serum could be injected into a well person, and the mild cowpox might protect them from the deadly smallpox. It worked.

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.

Small pox was a killer. The treatment was purely palliative before modern medicines.People that survived had horrible pock-marked faces and bodies , and was sort of a stigma, especially for women. The recent controversy regarding vaccines, in my opinion , is foolish . Thinking that things like small-pox and polio have disappeared from the face of the earth is just wrong . The re-emergence of these disease shows that the risk of side effects from vaccines is much lower than the risk of dealing with the devastation of the diseases themselves.

He died from a stroke at the age of 73. He had suffered a few minor strokes before the fatal one. He died at 2.00am on 26th January 1823, having been found unconscious at breakfast time the previous day, and never recovering consciousness. The night before, he had been called out to the local coroner, who had also suffered a stroke. He declared that the coroner would not survive more than 24 hours. Ironically, Dr Jenner died a few hours before his last patient.

James Phipps was the boy who had cow poxs put into him as an experiment. Apparently, he was a young tramp who was bought into Edwards house, he was an easy target to experiment on. This is because he had had no parent or family members around, they had all died from this horrid diease called small poxs.

very small pox

Edward Jenner was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire In 1770, he moved to London. However, he returned and later died in his home town of Berkeley (1823).

He did not discover much about the actual disease, but he came up with the vaccine. the first EVER vaccine.

"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."

he was 14 when he found out about smallpox's

No, Nobel Prizes started in 1901. Edward Jenner lived from 1749-1823.

In 1796, he injected an 8 year old boy with cowpox, a less lethal form of the small pox. This created an immunization to smallpox and was coined the first vaccination.

No. Vaccinations are not compulsory in most places.