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Edward Jenner

EDWARD JENNER

1749 - 1823

Doctor Edward Jenner was the man who improved and simplified the vaccination technique as a preventive measure against the dreaded disease (smallpox).

These days, after the World Health Organization declared the world free of smallpox, thanks to Jenner. We must not forget “how smallpox was so frightening and contagious that a good majority of the population of Europe was infected with this disease at some point in its life, please. 10-20 percent of those infected were dying from it. While this disease left disfiguring effects on Faces 10-15 percent of those who escape from death by it.

Smallpox was not only confined to Europe, but also spread in North America, India, China and several parts of the world. And everywhere it appeared, the children were the victims in the vast majority. It was noticed that those people who escaped death after contracting the disease became immune and the disease did not appear on them again. In the countries of the Levant, this observation led to the vaccination of healthy people with a substance taken from the body of a person who was slightly infected with this disease.

This information reached England several years before the appearance of (Jenner). Jenner was vaccinated against smallpox at about eight years of age, but serious setbacks appeared for this method, as many of those vaccinated in this way were subjected not to immunity against the attack of this disease, but to a cruel and malicious attack that left the infected. Their faces were disfigured (with smallpox blisters), and for this reason, the necessity and the need for a better way to prevent this disease and hide its effects appeared.

Jenner was born in 1749 in the small city of Berkeley in Gloucester County, England. At the age of twelve, he was apprenticed to a surgeon and studied anatomy. Then he worked in a hospital, and in his mid-forties he became a qualified surgeon in Gloucester County, England.

Jenner had, in the prevailing belief among dairy sellers and farmers, heard in his area that every person who was infected with cowpox (a simple disease that affects cattle and can be transmitted to humans) would not have been affected by ordinary smallpox. Cowpox was harmless to humans, although its symptoms were somewhat similar to those of smallpox.

And (Jenner) realized that if it was true. What dairy women say the vaccination. Humans with cowpox prepare a safe way to immunize them against smallpox. He researched the case carefully and finally, in 1796, had two sons impregnated by Jeans. Al-Omar Pousada taken from cowpox blisters found on the hands of a female dairy saleswoman. The boy contracted cowpox as expected, but he recovered immediately. A few weeks later, Jenner vaccinated him with smallpox, and as Jenner expected, the boy did not develop any of the symptoms of smallpox. After further research, Jenner wrote down his results in a small book that he published on his account in 1798.

Subsequently he wrote other articles on the subject, and as a result the method of inoculation against smallpox spread rapidly in England and soon became compulsory in the army and navy. And with the passage of time quoted by all countries of the world. Jenner did not try to make money from his discovery. He was feeding people for free, and in exchange for that, the English Parliament gave him a prize of ten thousand pounds sterling in 1802, and after a few years Parliament gave him another additional prize of 20 thousand pounds, so he became world famous, and several medals and titles of honor were presented to him. Jenner married and had three children. He lived until seventy-three and died in early 1823 in his hometown of Berkeley.