Edward Jenner and Vaccination Flashcards

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What disease did Edward Jenner's vaccine protect people from?

It protected people from smallpox, a deadly killer disease.

He was a country doctor from Gloucestershire who found a way to stop smallpox using vaccination.

He saw that milkmaids who caught cowpox did not later catch smallpox.

It is a mild disease caught from cows that Jenner used to protect people from smallpox.

He put pus from a cowpox sore into a cut on James Phipps's arm. Later he put smallpox pus into the boy, but the boy did not get smallpox.

He called it vaccination. This comes from the Latin word 'vacca', meaning cow.

In inoculation doctors gave people a small dose of smallpox itself. In vaccination Jenner used cowpox instead, which was safer.

In 1798 he printed a book called 'An Enquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae' to tell others about his experiments.

Parliament gave him money in 1802 and 1807 so he could run a vaccination clinic and train other doctors.

Jenner's vaccine was the first real vaccination. It made smallpox deaths fall and showed that doctors could prevent disease, not just treat it.