M smallpox / vaccinations

Question 1

What was smallpox?

Answer 1

a disease that killed by creating a complete shutdown of the body’s immune system.

Question 2

Symptoms of smallpox…

Answer 2

severe pain, chills, vomiting, and pus filled blisters on and beneath the skin

Question 3

What centuries did huge epidemics of smallpox lead to thousands of deaths?

Answer 3

18th and 19th

Question 4

In what years were there nationwide epidemics of smallpox?

Answer 4

1722,1723 and 1740-42

Question 5

What Oxfordshire village was wiped out due to smallpox?

Answer 5

Burford

Question 6

In 1796 how many people in London died from smallpox?

Answer 6

over 3500

Question 7

What were people experimenting by 1796?

Answer 7

Inoculation

Question 8

Inoculation came around in what year

Answer 8

1796

Question 9

What had people worked out that led to inoculation?

Answer 9

If you caught a gentle dose of a disease it might protect you in the future.

Question 10

Who was one of the most famous and successful inoculators in the 1700s?

Answer 10

Thomas Dimsdale

Question 11

In what year did Jenner conduct his vaccination experiment?

Answer 11

1796

Question 12

What did Edward Jenner notice about the diary maids he treated for cowpox?

Answer 12

They never got smallpox

Question 13

Who did Jenner infect with cowpox in 1796?

Answer 13

James Phipps, his gardeners son

Question 14

Did James catch smallpox after that when Jenner tried to give him it?

Answer 14

No

Question 15

What did Jenner write in 1798?

Answer 15

he wrote of his successful approaches to “vaccinating” the local population.

Question 16

How did people first react to vaccination?

Answer 16

They were scared and suspicious.

Question 17

What did religious leaders say about vaccination?

Answer 17

It was against Gods will

Question 18

What did uneducated people believe about cowpox vaccination?

Answer 18

It would turn them into cows

Question 19

What did inoculators think?

Answer 19

It would ruin their business

Question 20

Who supported vaccinations?

Answer 20

Parliament

Question 21

Why did parliament support vaccination?

Answer 21

It was cheaper and safer than inoculation

Question 22

What did vaccination not need that inoculation did?

Answer 22

People didn’t need to be quarantined after treatment

Question 23

By 1800 how many people around the world had been vaccinated?

Answer 23

100,000

Question 24

Who had their entire army vaccinated in 1805?

Answer 24

Napoleon

Question 25

Why did the anti-jenner propaganda eventually fall away?

Answer 25

The number of lives saved proved it effective

Question 26

What did the government enforce in 1872?

Answer 26

Compulsory smallpox vaccination

Question 27

What did smallpox vaccination become compulsory?

Answer 27

1872

Question 28

Who did Jenner inspire?

Answer 28

Koch and Pasteur to find more vaccinations

Question 29

When were public vaccinators appointed?

Answer 29

1871

Question 30

When was The Royal Jennerian Society set up and why?

Answer 30

1803 and to promote and facilitate vaccinations

Question 31

British government began to enforce compulsory vaccinations in what year?

Answer 31

1872