MEDICINE
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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He guessed.
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He wrote a good article.
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He infected himself.
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He tested it and proved it.
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Detailed explanation-1: -To test his theory, Dr. Jenner took material from a cowpox sore on milkmaid Sarah Nelmes’ hand and inoculated it into the arm of James Phipps, the 9-year-old son of Jenner’s gardener. Months later, Jenner exposed Phipps several times to variola virus, but Phipps never developed smallpox.
Detailed explanation-2: -For many years, he had heard the tales that dairymaids were protected from smallpox naturally after having suffered from cowpox. Pondering this, Jenner concluded that cowpox not only protected against smallpox but also could be transmitted from one person to another as a deliberate mechanism of protection.
Detailed explanation-3: -The smallpox vaccine, created by Edward Jenner in 1796, was the first successful vaccine to be developed. He observed that milkmaids who previously had caught cowpox did not catch smallpox and showed that a similar inoculation could be used to prevent smallpox in other people.
Detailed explanation-4: -Jenner hypothesized that contact with cowpox protected milkmaids from smallpox without causing any symptoms. He tested his hypothesis by scraping material from cowpox lesions and scratching this material into the skin of healthy individuals including his own son.
Detailed explanation-5: -They applied the scientific method by counting and comparing numbers of smallpox cases in cowpox vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals during smallpox outbreaks.