#Edward Jenner

[quotesfrommyreading]

The last needle to be applied against smallpox, before its eradication almost half a century ago, carried a dose of vaccine smaller than a child’s pupil. Four hundred years fit inside that droplet. The devotion of D. A. Henderson’s disease-eradicating team was in it. So were the contributions of Benjamin Rubin and the Spanish boys, as well as the advocacy of Henry Cline and the discovery by Edward Jenner, and before him the evangelism of Lady Montagu, and the influence of Circassian traders from the Caucasus Mountains, who first brought the practice of inoculation to the Ottoman court. An assembly line of discovery, invention, deployment, and trust wound its way through centuries and landed at the tip of a needle. Perhaps there is our final lesson, the one most worth carrying forward. It takes one hero to make a great story, but progress is the story of us all.

  —  Why the Age of American Progress Ended

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Interesting articles about Napoleon and the smallpox vaccine

The vaccine was created by a British doctor, Edward Jenner, in 1796. The first large-scale mobilization of the state for distributing the smallpox vaccine to the whole population was Napoleonic France. The vaccine campaign proved to be very successful and was a great public health achievement. This initiative set an example for vaccination distribution and public health policy.

Some of the institutions created to distribute the vaccine:

Central Vaccination Committee

Central Hospital for Free Vaccination

Vaccinator-doctor of the children of France

Society for the extinction of smallpox by the spread of the vaccine

Provincial committees established under the supervision of the Department officiers de santé,

Hospices, charity institutions, and lycées were to vaccinate all individuals

To help encourage people to actually take the vaccine (some people hesitated due to fear or prejudice):

Newspapers were obliged to have their texts on the subject validated by the Academy of Medicine

Napoleon had his son vaccinated as an example

Vaccinations were mandatory in public establishments, schools, colleges and armies

Napoleon worked with the Catholic Church, and at baptisms, encouraged families to have their children vaccinated

The vaccine was distributed throughout the French Empire. For example, here is an article about the vaccine being distributed in Italy:

Smallpox vaccination in napoleonic Italy (1800-1814)

In Italy, the same as in France, the Napoleonic authorities:

Created the laws and administration for the vaccination system

Organized personnel to enforce the vaccination policy

Gathered data and statistics on the vaccine performance

Isolated cases of smallpox

Educated the public about the vaccine

According the World Health Organization, smallpox is the only human disease to have been eradicated so far. (Source)

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Manga Edward Jenner

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Edward Jenner

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#OTD in 1725 – Five Dublin children receive the first recorded smallpox inoculations in Ireland.

Smallpox is an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus, a member of the orthopoxvirus family. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity and caused millions of deaths before it was eradicated. It is believed to have existed for at least 3000 years.   The name ‘smallpox’ was coined in the 15th century to distinguish it from the ‘great pox’, better known as…

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Edward Jenner was born on May 17, 1749. An English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine, the world's first ever vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae ("smallpox of the cow"), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1798 in the title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox, in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox.

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In YTP world, Edweew Joj inoculated people with coc to immunize them against smallpaul.

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The forefathers, are my mentors. For who & what this, is all that can be. No playing around, that I'm a player.

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Alay Edilen Halk Kahramanı: Edward Jenner

Alay Edilen Halk Kahramanı: Edward Jenner Edward Jenner çiçek hastalığına karşı geliştirdiği çiçek aşısı ile milyonlarca insanın hayatını kurtardı. Fakat bu aşıyı ilk duyurduğunda beklediği alkıştan çok dalga konusu oldu. İnekler üzerinde geliştirilen aşı insanlara nakledildiğinde, insanlar üzerinde ineklerin filizleneceği gibi saçma sapan yazılar ve karikatürler paylaşıldı. Bu kötü…

[quotesfrommyreading]

The end of smallpox offers a usefully complete story, in which humanity triumphed unequivocally over a natural adversary. It’s a saga that offers lessons about progress—each of which pertains to America today.

The most fundamental is that implementation, not mere invention, determines the pace of progress—a lesson the U.S. has failed to heed for the past several generations. Edward Jenner’s original vaccine could not have gone far without major assistance from early evangelists, such as Henry Cline; distribution strategies to preserve the vaccine across the Atlantic; and a sustained push from global bureaucracies more than a century after Jenner’s death.

Almost every story of progress is at least a little like this, because even the most majestic breakthroughs are typically incomplete, expensive, and unreliable. “Most major inventions initially don’t work very well,” the economic historian Joel Mokyr told me. “They have to be tweaked, the way the steam engine was tinkered with by many engineers over decades. They have to be embodied by infrastructure, the way nuclear fission can’t produce much energy until it’s inside a nuclear reactor. And they have to be built at scale, to bring down the price and make a big difference to people.”

  —  Why the Age of American Progress Ended

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