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Edward Jenner, an English country doctor from Gloucestershire, administers the world’s first vaccination as a preventive treatment for smallpox, a disease that had killed millions of people over the centuries.
While still a medical student, Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had contracted a disease called cowpox, which caused blistering on cow’s udders, did not catch smallpox. Unlike smallpox, which caused severe skin eruptions and dangerous fevers in humans, cowpox led to few ill symptoms in these women. On May 14, 1796, Jenner took fluid from a cowpox blister and scratched it into the skin of James Phipps, an eight-year-old boy. A single blister rose up on the spot, but James soon recovered. On July 1, Jenner inoculated the boy again, this time with smallpox matter, and no disease developed. The vaccine was a success. Doctors all over Europe soon adopted Jenner’s innovative technique, leading to a drastic decline in new sufferers of the devastating disease.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, scientists following Jenner’s model developed new vaccines to fight numerous deadly diseases, including polio, whooping cough, measles, tetanus, yellow fever, typhus, and hepatitis B, and many others. More sophisticated smallpox vaccines were also developed and by 1970 international vaccination programs, such as those undertaken by the World Health Organization, had eliminated smallpox worldwide.
While still a medical student, Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had contracted a disease called cowpox, which caused blistering on cow’s udders, did not catch smallpox. Unlike smallpox, which caused severe skin eruptions and dangerous fevers in humans, cowpox led to few ill symptoms in these women. On May 14, 1796, Jenner took fluid from a cowpox blister and scratched it into the skin of James Phipps, an eight-year-old boy. A single blister rose up on the spot, but James soon recovered. On July 1, Jenner inoculated the boy again, this time with smallpox matter, and no disease developed. The vaccine was a success. Doctors all over Europe soon adopted Jenner’s innovative technique, leading to a drastic decline in new sufferers of the devastating disease.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, scientists following Jenner’s model developed new vaccines to fight numerous deadly diseases, including polio, whooping cough, measles, tetanus, yellow fever, typhus, and hepatitis B, and many others. More sophisticated smallpox vaccines were also developed and by 1970 international vaccination programs, such as those undertaken by the World Health Organization, had eliminated smallpox worldwide.
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14th May 1796: Edward Jenner vaccinates against smallpox
On the 14th May 1796, English physician and scientist Edward Jenner purposefully infected 8-year James Phipps with cowpox. Rather than committing an act of g...
Thank you TSgt Joe C. for reminding us that on May 14, 1796 English country doctor from Gloucestershire, Edward Jenner administered the world’s first vaccination as a preventive treatment for smallpox, a disease that had killed millions of people over the centuries.
"On the 14th May 1796, English physician and scientist Edward Jenner purposefully infected 8-year James Phipps with cowpox. Rather than committing an act of gross medical negligence, Jenner was actually scientifically testing – and proving – that infection with the mild disease of cowpox gave immunity to smallpox.
By modern estimates, smallpox was killing up to 400,000 people a year across Europe by the end of the 18th Century. It is also known to have devastated the leaders of the royal families of Austria, Spain, Russia, Sweden and France. Attempts to reduce the impact of the disease were already well established. The process of smallpox inoculation, also known as variolation, involved purposely infecting a person with the smallpox disease using fluid from pustules on an already-affected patient. Although this was less risky than contracting the disease naturally, it was still a dangerous process. Therefore the ability to prevent smallpox using a safer alternative was highly desirable.
Jenner’s process was a medical revolution, although contrary to popular belief he was not the first person to link infection with cowpox to immunity to smallpox. For example Dr John Fewsty presented a paper called “Cowpox and its ability to prevent smallpox” to the Medical Society of London in 1765, 31 years before Jenner’s experiment. However, Fewsty never published his paper, and did not carry out any experiments to prove the connection. Therefore Jenner who conducted, recorded, and published a methodical scientific process is credited with the discovery of vaccination."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQl0W62DCAY
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"On the 14th May 1796, English physician and scientist Edward Jenner purposefully infected 8-year James Phipps with cowpox. Rather than committing an act of gross medical negligence, Jenner was actually scientifically testing – and proving – that infection with the mild disease of cowpox gave immunity to smallpox.
By modern estimates, smallpox was killing up to 400,000 people a year across Europe by the end of the 18th Century. It is also known to have devastated the leaders of the royal families of Austria, Spain, Russia, Sweden and France. Attempts to reduce the impact of the disease were already well established. The process of smallpox inoculation, also known as variolation, involved purposely infecting a person with the smallpox disease using fluid from pustules on an already-affected patient. Although this was less risky than contracting the disease naturally, it was still a dangerous process. Therefore the ability to prevent smallpox using a safer alternative was highly desirable.
Jenner’s process was a medical revolution, although contrary to popular belief he was not the first person to link infection with cowpox to immunity to smallpox. For example Dr John Fewsty presented a paper called “Cowpox and its ability to prevent smallpox” to the Medical Society of London in 1765, 31 years before Jenner’s experiment. However, Fewsty never published his paper, and did not carry out any experiments to prove the connection. Therefore Jenner who conducted, recorded, and published a methodical scientific process is credited with the discovery of vaccination."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQl0W62DCAY
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Capt Seid Waddell CW5 (Join to see) SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SSgt (Join to see) SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT John " Mac " McConnell SGT Robert George SP5 Robert Ruck SCPO Morris RamseyCPL Eric Escasio SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright SPC Margaret Higgins Kim Bolen RN CCM ACM SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Craig Cheltenham
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LTC Stephen F.
The principle of vaccination had been around for a long time Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen The idea of using the sick to help protect the healthy was noble but misguided when it came to extracting the pustules.
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People now don't understand how frightening this disease was and how many people died from it. If you were only disfigured you were lucky.
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