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Edward Jenner's Cowpock Illness

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Edward Jenner was an English country doctor in the late 1700's. In this time smallpocks was deadly, young people would be terrified of having this illness. There was no Vaccination to cure this illness. Until Jenner starting coming up with ideas. In 1788 the smallpock illness widely spread in the town of Gloucestershire. Jenner noticed something about how the people who were cattle farmers didn't get smallpocks.
Jenner's First vaccination was in 1796 to Sarah Nelmes. She has a rash that appeared on her hand, he diagnosed her with cowpocks. Cowpocks is an infection that someone would get from cows, often milkmaids would get them. The rash was usually on the person’s hand, although it doesn’t really hurt that patient. He became fascinated

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