{"product_id":"9781803992426-edward-jenner-the-vaccination-visionary","title":"Boddice Rob - Edward Jenner The Vaccination Visionary - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Edward Jenner The Vaccination Visionary\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Boddice Rob\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: The History Press Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781803992426\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 128 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 1\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Public Health \u0026amp; Preventive Medicine","brand":"Boddice Rob","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49624492146993,"sku":"IN-G-9781803992426","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781803992426.jpg?v=1724944667","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781803992426-edward-jenner-the-vaccination-visionary","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}