Essays Tagged: "Jenner"

This is a paper that I wrote for my health class. I was assigned the topic of smallpox. I did very well on this 5 page paper.

it dies out. The survivors of smallpox became immune to the disease.In 1796, a doctor named Edward Jenner reported something that he'd observed over the years of his practice in rural England that ev ... the years of his practice in rural England that eventually led to the eradication (end) of smallpox.Jenner was curious as to why milkmaids who came in contact with cows infected with a rash called cow ...

(5 pages) 113 0 4.7 Jan/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Biology career research on immunology

the diseases they cause. Immunology, which has its roots in the smallpox vaccination experiments by Jenner over 200 years ago, is now a sophisticated cellular and molecular discipline at the forefront ...

(3 pages) 62 0 4.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Smallpox Vaccination( This was a research project for a college science class).

ere the virus came from or when it was introduced, but because of the scientific research of Edward Jenner the world has a weapon against this horrible disease.Edward Jenner was an English country doc ... country doctor who in the seventeen hundreds became interested in the disease called smallpox. When Jenner was a child he was exposed to "variolation" which at that time was the weapon against smallpo ...

(3 pages) 58 0 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biochemistry

Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner was born on May 17, 1749, in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. He was the eighth child out ... rs old both his parents had died. After that his biggest sister Mary was then who took care of him. Jenner with only fourteen years old, he went to a school in Wotton-under-Edge and Cirencester where ... ng with a great surgeon and experimentalist named John Hunter. Hunter was the ideal inspiration for Jenner, with his critical mind, his great interest in biology, powers of observation, and interest i ...

(2 pages) 22 0 3.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Virus

as a metaphor for other parasitically-reproducing things, such as memes or computer viruses.Edward Jenner (May 17, 1749 - January 26, 1823) was an English doctor who studied nature and practiced medi ... rshire, England. He is famous for his discovery of the smallpox vaccine. William Osler records that Jenner was a student to whom was continually told, "Don't think, try". Jenner therefore was early no ...

(4 pages) 47 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Smallpox

g it was around for about 12,000 years. Nearly 200 years ago, neighbors informed a man named Edward Jenner that milkmaids who had developed cowpox (the strain of smallpox for cows) from the udders of ... ws) from the udders of cows did not become infected with smallpox when in contact with the disease. Jenner thought about what he was informed of and developed a hypothesis; if he took scrapings from l ...

(5 pages) 12 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases