Boddice Rob - Edward Jenner The Vaccination Visionary - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Edward Jenner is a giant of modern medicine. Throughout history smallpox had plagued humanity with disfigurement blindness and death. It was an incurable blight the suffering of which Jenner helped bring to an end. Surmising from the immunity of milkmaids that cowpox might be some defence against the ravages of smallpox in 1793 he took some of the matter from a human case of cowpox and inserted it into the arms of a young boy. To test this the first human - to - human vaccination he subsequently inoculated the boy with smallpox itself and found him to be immune from the disease. In 1979 smallpox was declared extinct. This is the story of Jenner's life his medical vision and his profound legacy. That legacy encompasses revolutions in medical experimentation public health provision and the prevention of other diseases from anthrax to measles.
Title: Edward Jenner The Vaccination Visionary
Author(s): Boddice Rob
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781803992426
Pages: 128 Pages
Publication Date: 1/30/2024
Category: Public Health & Preventive Medicine