Vaccination

Question 1

What was the biggest killer in 18 century ?

Answer 1

Smallpox

Question 2

How was smallpox prevented ?

Answer 2

INOCULATION

-given a weak form of the disease and if you survived you were immune, 3% died and it could scar

Question 3

Edward Jenner

Answer 3

-1796, gave a young boy cowpox after he noticed milkmaids who caught cowpox never got smallpox, was successful

Question 4

Opposition to vaccination

Answer 4

• country doctor, not respected
• didn’t want to be injected with cow disease, they thought you would get featured of a cow
• Jenner didn’t understand how it worked

Question 5

Why was government an important reason for vaccination ?

Answer 5

-after smallpox epidemic in 1837-1840, vaccination was free for all infants, in 1853, it was compulsory

Question 6

What did people believe before Germ theory ?

Answer 6

MIASMA

• microscope tech was improving, cold see bacteria
• SPONTANEOUS GENERATION, disease causes germs

Question 7

Germ theory- Louis Pasteur

Answer 7

• 1850s, filled two glasses with liquid and boiled to kill germs, he heated the spout of the flask and bent it into a curved shape to stop germs getting into liquid, flask did not go sour
• Pasteur proved germs create decay and disease

Question 8

Opposition to Germ theory

Answer 8

-something so small couldn’t harm something as large and advanced as a human

Question 9

How was the Germ theory accepted ?

Answer 9

Listed proved germs caused infection, used carbolic acid to prevent growth of germs but allowed air to enter wound

Question 10

Robert Koch and discovery that certain bacteria caused certain diseases

Answer 10

• Pasteur and Koch were rivals and were given money by the French government and German government
• Koch uses staining methods to discover plague in 1894 and tuberculosis

Question 11

Preventing and curing disease

Answer 11

• Pasteur = vaccines for rabies and anthrax

- Koch = typhoid