Edward Jenner

In 1796, using the blood of an infected victim, Jenner experimented on an eight-year-old-boy, by the name of James Phipps. He injected the smallpox contaminated serum into the bloodstream of the youngster. Consequently, the boy developed a mild fever and discomfort in certain parts of the body, and after that he had lost his appetite. Jenner felt hopeless, but much to his surprise, the boy felt better days after. He injected the boy with fresh…

The invention and renovation of vaccines was ultimately beneficial to humanity by preventing a multitude of diseases. Before Vaccines lifespans were considerably shorter as many people contracted a multitude of diseases and died in their thirties and forties. Before vaccines, there was disease, a nasty beast known to all. Not slightly inconvenient diseases like the common cold, but plagues that ravaged the land and ripped millions of lives away from their homelands. Many children passed into an…

in the day. Among the survivors, the consequences were severe, including blindness. Known from the earliest ancient times civilizations that later went to Europe where it spread, causing terrifying smallpox epidemics. Barely a few years after Edward Jenner introduced the antiviral vaccine for the disease, the Spanish Crown, while propagating vaccination in the metropolis, organized the Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition in order that the populations of the then Spanish colonies in America…

Vaccines for the longest time have been under scrutiny, for their alleged correlation with autism and other bad side effects while also having been credited for eradicated or largely eradicated many infectious diseases. The issue even came up during a recent Republican presidential debate. Under all that scrutiny the real question would be: Are vaccines more helpful or harmful? To really understand the answer to this question, one has to look at certain facts. For example, what exactly are…

Doctor Robert W. Sears, author of The Vaccination Book: Making the Right Decisions for Your Child, once said, “With the growing mistrust of vaccinations... more and more parents are saying no to vaccines. Illnesses that are very rare right now, that most parents don’t have to fear...” Vaccines have been used for decades, and have continued to change and advance as the scientific field has gained more knowledge on defeating a multitude of diseases and sicknesses. The question is how are vaccines…

contagious disease should be avoided at all costs. Thankfully, Edward Jenner created a vaccine for smallpox in 1796. “...Jenner, knew nothing about germs, he knew plenty about smallpox and inoculation. As a boy of eight, in 1757, Jenner endured what he called the worst experience of his life - a smallpox inoculation… Luckily, Jenner lived and gained a lifelong immunity to smallpox. The experience had another unforeseen effect; when he grew up, Jenner became a doctor, remembering his childhood…

According to the text “Medicine and the human body” found in The World History Book it states that “British Physician Edward Jenner introduced a vaccine to prevent smallpox… Jenner discovered that inoculation with germs from a cattle disease called cowpox gave permanent protection from small smallpox in humans.” This evidence demonstrates that Edward Jenner is significant because he discovered that those who had cowpox could not be infected with smallpox which was a widespread disease…

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 lives. This discovery correlates to the 21st century because we still use vaccines today in order…

The theory, invention and implementation of vaccination is widely considered to be one of the greatest medical achievements of modern medicine. As the most effective method of preventing infectious and life-threatening diseases, vaccines have had a significant impact on civilization and the world. This essay will define vaccination and describe life before the invention of vaccines. It will discuss the key players attributed to inventing and implementing immunization. It will then describe the…

Under many circumstances, human testing is indeed ethical because of the reasons that I am about to unload. Just so we're on the same page, human testing is doing an experiment with humans and is still debated to this day. Human experimentation is debatable because of two reasons. The first being what happened in WW2, the second being the fact that humans are living and breathing. Everyone (or most people) know how monkeys are very commonly used as the "human" variable in human-based experiments…