Cowpox

The boy reacted like everyone else who had cowpox and then he started to feel better after a couple of weeks. Jenner came back and injected the boy ones again, but this time with smallpox (deadly disease). Since, the boy had cowpox it protected him from the infection of smallpox causing him to be immune to the disease. Due to the discoveries by Edward Jenner vaccines were able to save…

system to defend against attack by a particular contagious disease” (Berger 107). In 1796, an English doctor by the name of Edward Jenner administered what we know today as the very first vaccination. Edward Jenner hypothesized that a disease called cowpox could have immunity against smallpox. Jenner tested his hypothesis on an 8-year-old little boy named James Phipps by…

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reported cases had dropped to only 72 (Post-Polio Health International, 2008). The first ever vaccination is often attributed to Edward Jenner in 1796 when he noticed that if someone had contracted cowpox they would not contract smallpox. He tested his hypothesis by inoculating eight year old James Phipps with cowpox. The boy was sick for a few days but eventually recovered from the disease at which point Jenner inoculated him…

hands were milking cows that had cowpox. The milkmaids never ended up getting sick from the cowpox, but as a result were immune to smallpox. Jenner observed this and coined the term vaccination from his conclusion that if he took the cowpox from the cow and injected into humans like the poke and stick method of inoculation, the patient’s wont become ill from the virus and in turn will just be immune to smallpox. The word vaccine comes from the medical term of cowpox, variola vaccinia which is…

be vaccinated should remain approved everywhere in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration. To give an historical background to this controversy, vaccines became available to citizens in the nineteenth century. Then, there were many deadly diseases spreading rather quickly and violently, like whooping cough, small pox, measles, and polio, just to name a few. Physicians and other health care professionals had to come up with a cure to save millions of lives during that time of…

Since early times in History, the world has had diseases, plagues, viruses that cannot be cured. Even today, with all of our scientist discoveries, there are still some diseases that the medical profession cannot cure. Thankfully, organizations such as Center for Disease Control (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), American Medical Association (AMA), and many other organizations have been created for the common people’s benefit. These organizations, have safely proven that vaccines can and…