MEDICINE
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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Question
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Pus from the utters of a cow
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Pus from a lymphnode of an infected patient
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Pus from scabs of an infected patient
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P us from the fresh sores of an infected patient
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Detailed explanation-1: -Healthy people would inhale a powder made from the crusts of smallpox scabs in order to protect themselves from the disease. They might show mild symptoms, but they were usually resistant to any subsequent exposure. The practice was called inoculation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Early in the 18th century, variolation (referred to then as ‘inoculation’) was introduced to Britain and New England to protect people likely to be at risk of infection with smallpox.
Detailed explanation-3: -One of the first methods for controlling smallpox was variolation, a process named after the virus that causes smallpox (variola virus).
Detailed explanation-4: -Variolation, the intentional inoculation of an individual with smallpox material, traces back to 16th-century China. Variolation used a lancet or needle to introduce pulverized dried smallpox scabs or pustule fluid into the skin of an individual.