HISTORY Flashcards
Time and place where smallpox became endemic
10th century China
“People can acquire immunity”
Thucydides (430 BC)
Process that involves exposing healthy people to material from the lesion caused by the disease, either by putting it under the skin or inserting powdered scabs into the nose
Variolation
Wife of British ambassador; performed variolation technique on her son to save him from smallpox
Lady Mary Wortley Montague
Developed the first vaccine for smallpox
Edward Jenner
Discovered lymphoid tissue in the small intestine
Peyer
Name of the boy tested in Edward Jenner’s experiment
James Phipps
Discovered phagocytosis
Ernst Haeckel
Father of Immunology
Louis Pasteur
Proposed the Humoral Theory of Immunity
Emil Von Behring and Shibasaburo Kitasata
“Chicken cholera bacillus” and attenuated vaccine
Louis Pasteur
Demonstration of cutaneous (delayed-type) hypersensitivity
Robert Koch
Cellular theory of immunity through phagocytosis
Elie Metchnikoff
“Father of Humoral Immunity”
“Side Chain Receptor Theory”
“Antibody formation theory”
Paul Ehrlich
Immediate hypersensitivity anaphylaxis
Paul Portier & Charles Richet
Arthur’s reaction of intermediate hypersensitivity
Maurice Arthus
Antigen-antibody binding hypothesis
John marrack
Development of polio vaccine
Salk & Sabin
Development of vaccine against yellow fever
Reed
Discovered the complement
Jules Bordet
Discovered the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC)
John Doucet
Immune genetics of MHC
Baruj Banascraf
Clonal Selection Theory Identification of antibody molecule Interferon Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) Immunological tolerance hypothesis
Macfarlane Burnet
W/ frank fenner for ITH
T cell restriction to MHC
Rolf Zinckernagel & Peter Doherty