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Edward Jenner - The Vaccination Visionary (Paperback)
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Edward Jenner - The Vaccination Visionary (Paperback)
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Loot Price R272
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Edward Jenner is a giant of modern medicine. Throughout history,
smallpox had plagued humanity with disfigurement, blindness, and
death. It was an incurable blight, the suffering of which Jenner
helped bring to an end. Surmising from the immunity of milkmaids
that cowpox might be some defence against the ravages of smallpox,
in 1793 he took some of the matter from a human case of cowpox and
inserted it into the arms of a young boy. To test this, the first
human-to-human vaccination, he subsequently inoculated the boy with
smallpox itself, and found him to be immune from the disease. In
1979 smallpox was declared extinct. This is the story of Jenner's
life, his medical vision, and his profound legacy. That legacy
encompasses revolutions in medical experimentation, public health
provision, and the prevention of other diseases, from anthrax to
measles.
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