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    The source I have selected is a handwritten outline for a lecture on the smallpox inoculation, an injection that releases a very minor for of the disease into the patient for trained immunity. The passage focuses on preparing the body before inoculation, especially in regards to humoralism and temporal changes. As the database only provided one image of the source, the source is approximately one-page long. Although short, the source delivers a very concise description of a case study of a young girl in England and focuses on the preparation of her body before inoculation (however, the patient’s parents revoked their decision for their child to receive the injection). It is possible that the following pages of the notes may have focused on…

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    that assaults the resistant framework and other living cells. Youngsters are considerably more helpless against ailments on account of their feeble invulnerable frameworks. They 're feeble on the grounds that they haven 't lived sufficiently long to assemble invulnerabilities for such contaminations. So how might youngsters secure themselves? Inoculations are the reply. In any case, in drug, there are dependably hazards. A few guardians contend that immunizations shouldn 't be compulsory for…

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    Inoculation is what started the path to vaccinations. Since smallpox was such a common disease, communities tried to prevent it the best they could. These folk practices were used in many parts of the world like Turkey, Asia, China, and India. The two most common practices included inserting pus into an incision made on the arm and breathing in crushed smallpox scabs into the nose. Both of these methods were used on healthy children since once you acquire the smallpox disease you are…

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    Jenner's Cowpox Vaccines

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    A vaccine is a biological product that helps humans or other animals develop immunities that protect them from one or more diseases. English doctor Edwin Jenner developed the first vaccine in 1796 to create an immunity to smallpox after noticing that women who contracted cowpox from milking cows did not develop smallpox. Jenner used material from these women’s cowpox sores to manufacture his vaccine. This origin gave the word vaccine its name, which is rooted in vacca, the Latin word for cow.…

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    Unknown Microorganism

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    identify fermentation of carbohydrates for the unknown organism #40. Phenol red is a ph. indicator as the inverted Durham tube indicates gas production. The unknown organism was inoculated into each phenol red broth with either sucrose or lactose. The inoculating tool was sterilized by heat between each inoculation. The inoculated broth was then incubated at 37℃ for 24-48 hours. The negative outcomes are: medium…

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    Smallpox was very present in the every day life in Jenner's time during the 18th century. Its intense outbreaks resulted in high mortality rates. Smallpox was the leading cause of death at the time, It did not stick to a specific social class, and disfigurements such as blindness and scars was common to anyone that survived the disease. The only combat against the disease developed in China and India in which the people would infect a healthy person on purpose. The idea behind this was that if a…

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    Small Pox Research Paper

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    You where able to protect your children form this frightful epidemic. The symptoms of small pox where hard to endure, however if they chose to have the procedure, they would most likely only receive a mild case. Yes, it was going to be painful, however, the little pain you would feel is better than massive case that might causes you a vary painful death. Cotten Mather accounts how the poor where all ding from this illness until they learned to take the juices from the a small pox victim then cut…

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    Chinese Vaccine History

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    The history of vaccines goes way back to 1000 CE. A vaccine timeline on historyofvaccines.org shows that there is evidence that the Chinese in early 1000 CE employed a smallpox inoculation and it was also practiced through Africa and Turkey as well (History of Vaccines). The next big vaccine epidemic started with Edward Jenner. He was a very successful man when his use of cowpox material to create immunity to smallpox quickly made the practice wide-spread in 1796. Edward Jenner took pus from a…

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    It was in late eighteenth century Edward Jenner discovered a safer immunizing technique that could replace the preexisting variolation technique, the vaccination. The method of variolation encountered significant death rate which led the world go panic. Therefore, physicians were on the quest of finding a new and more secure method of immunization with minimal or no death rates. On this basis, an English physician named Edward Jenner (1748–1823) searched for a cure for smallpox, a devastating…

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    Over 200 years ago a medical student by the name of Edward Jenner successfully created the first vaccination ever. In the following years scientists engineered a variety of vaccines following Jenner’s model and by 1970 international vaccine programs, such as the World Health Organization, had created a smallpox vaccine that eliminated the disease worldwide. Since the implementation of vaccines, questions of safety have arose, especially from parents concerned with the health dangers of…

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