GCSE History- Medicine Through Time Edward Jenner Edward Jenner (1749-1923) was a country doctor‚ he had studied his natural surroundings and nature since childhood. His name is known because he was the first to invent successful vaccination (in this case for smallpox.) At the time‚ smallpox was a greatly feared disease. One in three of those who caught it died and any survivors were often badly disfigured. He investigated the rural old-wives tale that milkmaids couldn’t get smallpox believing
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Edward Jenner was an English surgeon that is now greatly known in the field of science as discovering a way to vaccinate for smallpox. Because of his achievements in the medical field of science‚ this has led to many other great discoveries and a way to control a great deal of diseases. Because of him‚ the smallpox disease is now virtually nonexistent. That is why he is also known as the “Father of Immunology” Jenner was born May 17‚ 1749 in the English countryside. His father was a clergyman. His
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Edward Jenner Edward Jenner‚ ultimately‚ developed and introduced the world’s first vaccine—the smallpox vaccine‚ which allowed for the eradication of the smallpox virus from the entire world. The remarkable Jenner was born on May 17‚ 1749 in Berkeley‚ Glouchestershire‚ England as the eighth child among nine (Allen 47). At the very young age of five‚ he became an orphan and lived with and was taken care of by an older brother (Jenner 1). Nevertheless‚ he would grow up to be an incredibly famous
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vaccination. Edward Jenner’s discovery of the smallpox vaccination offered protection against the illness where no illness would develop. For the few that did survive smallpox‚ it was known that they became immune to the disease. Considering this‚ Jenner’s beginnings in the village of Gloucestershire led to him opening a practice as a village surgeon. While he was in his practice‚ he realized that the women who milked cows suffering from cowpox did not get smallpox. Subsequently‚ Jenner took the pus
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Ever since the first known use‚ vaccinations have been used to treat disease and viruses from as early as 1000 AD when the ancient Chinese‚ African and Turkish first started using inoculated technique. Edward Jenner‚ an English physician and scientist‚ created the first smallpox vaccine using a similar disease‚ cowpox‚ which infects cows‚ and is credited for being the influence for the practice of vaccination in the present. For over 200 years Jenner’s innovation was used and updated; as a result
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Edward Jenner was a inventor that invented the vaccination for small pox (caused from cow pox). Edward Jenner also known as "Jenner" or "Edward" has a amazing backround!! ’’Edward Jenner was a scientist beforehand so it helped him develop the skills to create this vaccination" according to Encyclopidea.com. Although‚ Edward did have failures as well as any other inventor. Jenner because famous‚ hero and rich from his invetion‚ man what a life!! Edward jenner wasnt only detrmined he was very smart
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The Jenner Trial "The smallpox was always present‚ filling the churchyards with corpses‚ tormenting with constant fears all whom it had stricken‚ leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power‚ turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered‚ and making the eyes and cheeks of the bighearted maiden objects of horror to the lover" (Macaulay). Imagine walking down the busiest street in 1700s London‚ and you only saw a dozen people. In every window‚ bodies
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The first time Edward Jenner heard about smallpox was when he was a young practitioner. He heard a woman that said she was not going to get smallpox because she already had cowpox. At that time it did not make sense‚ but later on did. After he became a physician‚ he founded that smallpox and cowpox were similar because they were diseases derivatives from the same “family.” Time passed and in one of his consultations‚ he went out on the field and during this transition Mr. Jenner observed that some
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this statement applies to Jenner and his work. Jenner’s discovery of the link between cowpox and smallpox was significant to the development of a vaccine for smallpox. However‚ it can be argued that Jenner and his discovery were not enough on their own to bring medical progress. The factors Scientific thinking‚ Government Communication and Changing attitudes played a major and important role to bring medical progress. One reason as to why the statement applies to Jenner and his work is because the
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Caitlyn Jenner‚ previously known as "Bruce" carries an astonishing secret for decades. When she finally comes out about something that is seen as controversial to many people‚ such as being transgender. The already iconic individual becomes more of an icon than she already is; especially to the transgender community. II. Caitlyn’s Early Life Caitlyn Jenner‚ born on October 28‚ 1949 as William Bruce Jenner‚ in the small town‚ Mount Kisco of New York‚ has a very athletic childhood. Jenner struggles
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