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Liquid From The Blisters Jenner Repeated Smallpox
821 wordsSmallpox has been one of the most dangerous and deadly curses ever placed on humankind. Even illnesses as terrible as the plague, cholera, and yellow fever have not had such a universal effect. Smallpox is a parasitic virus (a virus destructive to the host) called variola. Its considered to be a crowd disease, spreading only through people and requiring a large densely populated area to survive. If the virus is cut off from new host bodies it dies out. Smallpox is spread by what is called drople...
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Anabolic Steroids Years Ago
826 wordsAthletics today is not the same as it was 20 years ago or even 10 years ago. As the years have past our athletic events have become more important to our society, some athletes are getting paid upwards of a millions dollars a year to do what regular athletes have been doing for years. Since the athletes are getting paid more, it normal means that the games are getting more interesting. The things that make the games more interesting are the fact that todays athletes are going to great lengths to...
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Ebola Viruses
1,226 wordsRunning head: MICROBIOLOGY MODULE 1 Microbiology Module I July 14, 2009 Microbiology Module I Microbiology Module 1 Part A Dear Editor, Few days ago I have read the article published in a local newspaper claiming that Edward Jenner was the greatest microbiologist of all time and made the greatest contribution to public health. Although I do honor Edward Jenner and do consider him to be one of the greatest microbiologists of the century, the importance of other microbiologists and their contribut...
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18 Th Century Edward Jenner
401 wordsDid Jenner Really Make A Breakthrough In Did Jenner Really Make A Breakthrough In The Fight Against Disease? In the 18 th century, medical knowledge was still quite basic with very few advances since the middle-ages. The biggest advances had come from Versailles, Pare and Harvey, but these advances were just in knowledge of the human body, not in the treatment of disease. The main treatments of disease were based on the four humours still and the most common was bleeding. Smallpox was a huge pro...
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Bubonic Plague Edward Jenner
696 wordsDisease And Vaccinations In The Industrial Revolution Disease And Vaccinations In The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the advent of gross urbanization of factory towns and cities. Due to advancements in areas such as textiles and machinery, many people flocked from the countrysides of Europe (particularly Britain) to cities where they sought work was factory operators and machinists. To accommodate the tremendous influx of people, ch...
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Edward Jenner John Hunter First
515 wordsMrs. Frey World Poe Brooke Basic Mrs. Frey World History Honors 14 April 2000 Edward Jenner was born in Berkeley in 1749. Orphaned until he was 5 years old, his brothers and sisters wanted him to get involved with medicine. He completed his training with the great surgeon John Hunter at St. Georges Hospital in London. At the age of 23 he returned to Berkeley as the local doctor, leaving only to continue smaller practices in London and Cheltenham. The Chantry became his home for 38 years. From th...
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