As reported by various sources, by taking pus from cowpox lesions from the hands of a milkmaid, Vaccine Inventor dr. Jenner infected an 8-year-old boy, James Phipps, with the cowpox virus. Six weeks later dr. Jenner performed variolation (the process of transferring pus from the active lesion of a person with variola, to the arm of another healthy person using a needle) on 2 points on the arm of Phipps with the variola virus. READ ALSO – This girl admits her body is like a magnet after being injected with the Pfizer vaccine
As a result, it turned out that the boy was not infected with variola and remained healthy even though the variolation procedure was repeated a second time.
The interesting thing is how a doctor who lives in a rural area can come up with the concept of a vaccine in the midst of limited facilities? At first the inventor of the vaccine, dr. Jenner pays attention to the local population, the majority of whom make a living as farmers. Those who milk cows are often infected with cowpox (cow pox) which causes pustule lesions to appear on the hands and arms.
It turned out that those who had been infected with cowpox became immune to variola infection which at that time there was an outbreak of variola in the village. With this experience, dr. Jenner started the world’s first clinical research. This research provides an alternative to the variation that was carried out in Asia in the 1600s and in Europe and America in the early 1700s.
The term vaccine was only known in 1796 when the first smallpox vaccine was discovered. Prior to that, efforts to prevent infection by a disease had been carried out since ancient Greece, 429 BC. At that time, a Greek historian discovered that people who had recovered from smallpox were never infected with smallpox a second time.
Long before Vaccine Inventor Edward Jenner, In the year 900, the Cheinas discovered an ancient form of vaccination, namely variolation. Variolation is the process of transferring the smallpox virus from the lesions of smallpox sufferers to healthy people, with the aim of preventing smallpox infection. Variolations began to spread to European soil in the 18th century when there was an outbreak of smallpox. By variolation, the death rate from smallpox can be reduced at that time.
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