Essay about The Vaccine that Made Me Want to Become a Doctor

The practice of Inoculation is used to prevent a more serious infection by introducing a small amount of disease into the body to build immunity. The individual may be slightly ill but after the fight off the disease the person will be entirely immune to the disease. In 1776 Edward Jenner, a british scientist had a revelation. He noticed Cowpox, which is similar to Smallpox but not as deadly, protected the dairy maids from Smallpox if they contracted the disease from their cows. Cow Pox caused small blisters to form, and a low grade fever but nothing worse. The Cowpox virus was close enough in structure to Smallpox that the antibodies made by the infected person successfully defended against the 25-75% lethal Smallpox virus. Jenner hit upon the idea of breaking open a Cowpox blister on a cow and scratching the liquid inside into the arm of a person. He found that this, indeed did give the person Cowpox. Now all he had to do was to place the person next to someone with Smallpox and see if his theory was correct, were they immune. I noticed that Jenner didn’t use himself to test this theory, but an eight year old boy named James Phippsthankfully he was

Imagine a quick spreading rash throughout the entire body, leaving not a single space behind; every opening and crevice in your body, including your mouth and eyes covered in painful bumps accompanied by high fever and severe body aches. Flat red spots transforming into fluid-filled lesions and soon oozing out yellow pus, evidently emitting a pungent odor to anyone who dared get close. The live virus present in the darkening crusty scabs that would soon fall off only to leave behind a deep pitted scarred filled complexion on anyone who was fortunate enough to survive. These scars would be forever remembered as the hallmark for the smallpox epidemic which tormented the world for over 3,000 years. (Riedel “Deadly Diseases”).

The earliest recorded smallpox was happened in ancient Egypt. In the end of fifth century, the European colonists gave blankets which used by smallpox patients to the indigenous people, the plague happed. Until the human cured the smallpox completely, more than millions of people had been killed by the smallpox.

Vaccinations were first introduced in the late 18th century by Edward Jenner. He injected a small amount of cowpox in a thirteen year-old boy to demonstrate the effectiveness it had against smallpox, resulting in the development of the first smallpox vaccine in 1798. Because of his discovery, Jenner contributed to the overall annihilation of the disease in 1979 after the vaccine was implemented in different medicines throughout the world (source). Following Jenner, many others produced vaccines to help reduce the fatalities of common diseases such as measles, polio, and rubella, which were once responsible for millions of deaths every year. Now, there is almost no risk of catching these fatal illnesses.

It was Edward Jenner’s challenges and work lead to what is now called the Smallpox Vaccine. However, it wasn’t until the 19th century that people started to accept the idea of vaccines and utilize them as a form of preventative treatment. Vaccines were vastly different from variolation in many ways. We were able to get all the benefits that were associated with variolation with out the side effects that were connected with them. Second hand diseases had the capability of being spread from person to person through variolation. This in turn produced a fear for second hand diseases that could arise from variolation. This problem was also found with vaccines, which, will be discussed later on. However, vaccinations didn’t mean we had lifelong immunity to the disease we still need to be revaccinated. Strands from the vaccine need to be shipped in order for other countries to use reap the positive benefits (Fenner ea. atl.,

Riedel, Stefan. "Edward Jenner and the History of Smallpox and Vaccination." Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center). Baylor Health Care System, Jan. 2005. Web. 12 Apr. 2017. . Edward Jenner developed a very strong interest in nature and science that continued throughout this entire life. Throughout this life, he worked underneath many surgeons and physicians. He introduced the vaccine for smallpox in 1796 when inoculated James Phipps, a young boy with cow pox virus.

Immunization, as of today, is widely different from the methods of immunization used hundreds of years ago. Buddhist monks swallowed snake venom to receive immunity to snake bites, and variolation, the act of spreading cowpox infected skin on non-infected skin to gain immunity to smallpox, was exercised in China during the 1600s. In 1796, after injecting a 13-year-old-boy with vaccinia virus(cowpox) and validated immunity to cowpox, Edward Jenner is acknowledged as the founder of vaccinology. The first smallpox vaccine was produced in the year of 1798. Over the course of the 1700s and the 1800s, smallpox was eradicated due to the efficient application worldwide, which led to the vaccine being eradicated in 1979 (Immunization Advisory Centre).

The foundation for Dr. Edward Jenner 's first vaccine was the inoculation process. Because he was familiar with dairy farming, he began observing “cowpox,” or vaccinia, in which red pimples on cows ' udders became blisters, scabbed, then scarred (Riedman 28). Many people believed exposure to cowpox would result in protection from the smallpox disease (Riedman 29). Jenner decided to test the theory that cowpox protected people from contracting smallpox (Riedman 31). He experimented by injecting smallpox material into people who were previously infected with cowpox; they did not contract the smallpox disease (Riedman 34). Jenner 's experiment resulted in the discovery that cowpox could be transferred through vaccination and provided safe, effective protection from smallpox (Riedman 35). Through the efforts of Lady Montague and Edward Jenner, vaccination became a popular procedure. The creation of the first vaccine was a crucial step for the health of many people.

On May 14th, 1796, Edward Jenner, an English country doctor from Gloucestershire, took fluid from a cowpox blister and scratched it into the skin of 8 year old James Phipps. A blister rose up on the spot, but it soon dissipated. On July 1st, 1796, Jenner introduced the boy to smallpox matter, but no symptoms or disease ensued. This was the birth of vaccinations.

The history of vaccines dates back to ancient China, where there are writings from the eleventh century that make reference to a primitive form of vaccination, which they called “variolization.” Variolization, or engrafting, is the inoculation of smallpox pus in order to cause smallpox in an attenuated form and thus immunize the patient. This practice was not without risks as a number of people vaccinated in this form contracted a severe form of smallpox and unfortunately passed away. Variolization was introduced in Europe, specifically in Great Britain, in 1721 by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. “During a smallpox epidemic in April 1721, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu asked Dr. Charles Maitland to ‘engraft’ her

The first major discoveries that laid the foundation for technological advances in the world of vaccinations were that of Edward Jenner and Louis Pasteur. In 1796, Jenner took on smallpox. He had been informed that milkmaids seemed to be immune to the disease, however, upon further inspection he realized that the women all had a lesser form of smallpox, called cowpox, on their hands. He began to theorize that cowpox played a role as to why the women never contracted the deadly disease. To test his theory, he rubbed pus from a cowpox wound into a laceration of a young boy and then exposed him to smallpox. Weeks later, the boy still hadn’t contracted the more lethal disease, smallpox. He called this a vaccine, however, he had no idea as to why this was or what the connection was between the two diseases. As such, people of this age were skeptical to test the new vaccine.

Edward Jenner created the first vaccines in 1798. He developed a vaccine to protect against small pox. Due to Edward Jenner’s vaccination, other scientists began to create vaccines for other disease like Typhoid, Rabies, and the Plague. With vaccines production climbing, the

The early Chinese practiced a preventive vaccination method called variolation; wherein an individual was exposed to a small amount of material taken from the pustule of an infected person. This allowed for a less severe case of smallpox and made an individual immune to future infections (Link 11). It wasn’t until much later that the process would be streamlined. Edward Jenner, the Father of Immunology, began his experiments in the late eighteenth century. Acting on the stories surrounding milk maids immunity to smallpox due to exposure to cowpox. Jenner developed and tested inoculations on healthy children to prove their effectiveness. He published his findings and expected the general public to line up for the opportunity to prevent the fatal illness. However, after months without patients, he found that the sway of public opinion was against him. Because his vaccine was developed from cowpox pustules scraped from the udder of an infected animal, there was a fear that those who chose to be inoculated would degenerate into beasts. Benjamin Moseley encouraged this theory by falsely printing commentaries describing children who began to sprout hair down their backs. He linked vaccines to bestiality and the inevitable degradation of the human

Invented by an English physician, Jenner Edwards, in 1796 vaccines have come to defeat many deadly viruses. Through experimentation and hard work, Jenner created the first vaccine for the deadly smallpox virus. Jenner spent much of his life researching and experimenting to find a way to beat smallpox, and in 1796 from the teats of cows Jenner invented the first effective smallpox vaccine. After infecting children with a small amount of cowpox, Jenner discovered that the children built up an immunity to the otherwise deadly smallpox virus (Helicon). Before Jenner’s invention of vaccines disease

According to my research, in 1796 Dr. Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox disease however during this time only cows were infected. This vaccine came from the cowpox virus. In 1809, the state of Massachusetts became the first to mandate the smallpox vaccinations then in 1879 a group of Anti-Vaccination of America was formed and their belief is that no one should be forced to vaccination. They believed that the vaccine was spreading the disease instead of preventing it. In 1986