Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Changes In
Medicine 1845-1945
- The Age of Enlightenment
- 18th century
- Small Pox was a major killer
- FATAL
- SCARRED
- DISSFIGURED
- Inoculation
- Lady Montagu
- introduced INOCULATION in Britain
- healthy person could be IMMUNISED against small pox
- using pus
- From sores of someone with the disease (mild)
- led to FULL-BLOWN smallpox and death
- doctors become rich from this
- Milkmaids
- Edward Jenner
- people who had cowpox
didn't get small pox
- vaccination was made free for
infants in 1840 and compulsory
in 1853
- didn't get small pox
- would catch mild cowpox