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The smallpox vaccine was discovered by the scientist Edward Jenner in the mid-18th century, which made him famous
Edward Jenner and the smallpox vaccine
Jenner was an english doctor that discovered the first vaccine fully effective. Because of that is considered the father of immunology and his work has saved more lives than any other one.
He was born at Berkeley, Britain in 1749. After their parents died he stayed in charge of his aunt and before he went to school they taught him basic skills.
When he was 8 there was a smallpox outbreak and they applied him the only method of prevention, the variolization.
Before he discovered the vaccine in 1803 he became the president of the london jermentary society
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Edward Jenner talked with a young milkmaid who said that she wont’ have the smallpox because she already had the cowpox. This aroused Edward's curiosity and he decided to investigate it.
His hypothesis was that if one person was infected willfully of cowpox and then you try to infect him with smallpox he won’t be affected.
To test his hypothesis he infected a 8 year old kid with milk pox, the kid was sick for some days but with time he recovered totally, then Eddward tried to infect the kid with smallpox but he did not contract the disease, which made his hypothesis correct.
In 1797 Jenner presented the study to the Joyal Society describing the experiment, but the scientists needed more proof. Jenner experimented for several years until in 1798 he published his research but people did not accept it and defined the vaccine as something disgusting. Finally, over time, Jenner's vaccination method became more famous and was finally approved and spread throughout the world.
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