Smallpox

Question 1

What is inoculation?

Answer 1

A type of cure for small pox.

Question 2

What did people find out about inoculation

Answer 2

They found out that it sometimes gave people a strong instead of small dose of smallpox - which killed people. Andy any inoculated person could be able to spread it.

Question 3

When did Edward Jenner become a doctor

Answer 3

1770s

Question 4

What did Jenner find out by the difference from cow pox which milkmaids got and smallpox which everyone else got

Answer 4

Cowpox is similar to small pox but it is milder version of it. From cows milkmaids would never catch deadly small pox

Question 5

Jenner decided to carry out an experiment on a local boy and gave a dose of cowpox germs how many times did he do this experiment.

Answer 5

23 times

Question 6

What did Jenner discover after doing this experiment 23 times

Answer 6

He concluded that cowpox protects the human from infection the small pox

Question 7

What did he call his teqnique of cure

Answer 7

Vaccination because in latin the word vaccinus means “from a cow”

Question 8

What did napoleon do to his soldiers

Answer 8

He had all of them vaccinated.

Question 9

What did the British government do?

Answer 9

He made smallpox vaccination compulsory