MEDICINE MCQ
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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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: -The inoculator usually used a lancet wet with fresh matter taken from a ripe pustule of some person who suffered from smallpox. The material was then subcutaneously introduced on the arms or legs of the nonimmune person. The terms inoculation and variolation were often used interchangeably.
Detailed explanation-2: -Smallpox inoculation was a simple procedure: a doctor removed pus from an active pustule of an infected person, and then inserted that pus into the skin of a non-infected person via a small incision. The insertion of the pus resulted in the inoculated person contracting smallpox.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -One of the first methods for controlling smallpox was variolation, a process named after the virus that causes smallpox (variola virus).
Detailed explanation-5: -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.