The+Vaccine

=The Vaccine= In the painting below, Edward Jenner is depicted vaccinating one of the first patients for smallpox. Edward Jenner discovered the vaccination, by taking materials directly from a cow lesion and injecting this material into the individual provided a preventive therapy for the development of the disease. However, variolation was one of the first therapies for smallpox. The method was developed in China around the Sung Dynasty from 960-1280 which was the transfer of smallpox as a inoculation to susceptible victims it was not a cure. yet, the treatment consisted of a dried smallpox scab, it was then converted to powder and through the means of inhaling the substance through the nose or the injecting/rubbing of the fluid of the smallpox pustule into a scratch the patient was inoculated. This covered a 2.5% mortality rate whereas, Jenner's vaccine had a high success rate, and became the popular choice of treatment. Due to this breakthrough in 1796, an announcement was made in 1980 that worldwide eradication of smallpox had been accomplished.

This pages bibliography: Image- http://www.ebinrushed.com/history/images/history_7.jpg Written- Oldstone, M 1998, Viruses, Plagues and History, pp. 45-72, Oxford University Press, New York, USA. Riedel, S 2005, Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination, Baylor University Medical Centre Proceedings, vol. 18, pp.21-25.