Smallpox Flashcards
What is inoculation?
A type of cure for small pox.
What did people find out about inoculation
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.
When did Edward Jenner become a doctor
1770s
What did Jenner find out by the difference from cow pox which milkmaids got and smallpox which everyone else got
Cowpox is similar to small pox but it is milder version of it. From cows milkmaids would never catch deadly small pox
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.
23 times
What did Jenner discover after doing this experiment 23 times
He concluded that cowpox protects the human from infection the small pox
What did he call his teqnique of cure
Vaccination because in latin the word vaccinus means “from a cow”
What did napoleon do to his soldiers
He had all of them vaccinated.
What did the British government do?
He made smallpox vaccination compulsory
