1) What was the way of protecting yourself against disease before Jenner? INOCULATION.

1) What was the way of protecting yourself against disease before Jenner?

INOCULATION

2) How did this work?

Injecting the body with a tiny amount ofblood from an infected person, so thatinoculated person would develop animmunity to the disease (often this didn’twork)

3) Which disease did Jenner discover a vaccine for?

Smallpox

4) What had he noticed about milkmaids?

They gotcowpox butnever smallpox

5) What did he do to test his theory, and overall how many times did he do his experiment?He injected a boy with cowpox, and after aweek injected him with smallpox. He wasfine!

Jenner did his experiment 23 times!

6) What was this process called, and why?

VACCINATION!VACCINATION!

“Vacca” – Latin for cow

7) Why did some people oppose his ideas?

The idea that a disease from a cow could protect humans seemed crazy to many

People don’t like new ideas!

8) What evidence is there that the government supported him? Exact year needed.

1852

COMPULSORYCOMPULSORY VACCINATION

9) Although he saved hundreds of thousands of lives, what was the limitation of his work?

Jenner did not understand how vaccinationactually worked