[LEC] historical background Flashcards
Father of Scientific History
Thucydides
Recognized the “immune” status of individuals who had previously recovered from plague (430 BC)
Thucydides
Immunization by inhaling is known as
Insuffation
Method of immunization against smallpox
Variolation
Allowed her son to be inoculated (variolation)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Smallpox vaccination (1798)
(Edward) Jenner
Father of Immunology
Louis Pasteur
Phagocytosis (1862)
Ernest Haeckel
Invented live attenuated, chicken cholera, and anthrax vaccine (1862)
Louis Pasteur
First report of live attenuated vaccine for rabies (1885)
Therapeutic vaccination
Cellular theory of immunity through phagocytosis (1883-1905)
Elie Metchnikoff
Father of Phagocytosis Theory
Elie Metchnikoff
Proposed humoral theory of immunity (1890)
Emil Von Behring and Shibasaburo Kitasato
Demonstrated cutaneous (delayed-type) hypersensitivity (1891)
Koch
Antibody formation theory (1900)
Paul Ehrlich
Immediate hypersensitivity anaphylaxis (1902)
Paul Portier and Charles Richet
Arthus reaction of intermediate hypersensitivity (1903)
Nicolas Maurice Arthus
Hypothesis of antigen-antibody binding (1938)
Marrack
Hypothesis of allograft rejection
Acquired Immunologic Tolerance with Burnet (1944)
Peter Medawar
Development of Polio vaccine (1949)
Salk and Sabin
Vaccine against yellow fever (1951)
Reed
Graft-versus-Host reaction (1953)
Dick W. van Bekkum
Clonal Selection Theory (1957)
Burnet
Interferon (viral interference) (1957)
Alick Isaacs and Jean Lindenmann