Vaccination is a method of preventing somebody from catching a disease. The method involves injecting a person with a dead form of an infection. (Technically this is injection of dead pathogens which can’t reproduce, this means that should live pathogens be introduced they will be unable to live, therefore creating immunity to the infection). Vaccination is different to inoculation. Inoculation involves injection of live pathogens in a weakened state. This also results in immunisation. The first use of these techniques in the UK were in relation to Smallpox. Edward Jenner<\/a> learnt of Mary Montague Wortley’s use of inoculation for cowpox, which she had learn in Turkey. He used these principles to inoculate against Smallpox by injection of a weakened form of Cowpox.<\/p>\n Worksheet: The Fight against Infectious Disease<\/a><\/p>\n Schoolshistory home<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0History teachers resources<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Medical History Timelines<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Alexander Fleming<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Florey and Chain develop Penicillin<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gerhard Domagk and Prontosil<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Edward Jenner and the Smallpox Vaccine<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Louis Pasteur and Germ Theory<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Robert Koch<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The development of Vaccinations<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Was Penicillin an accident?<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Paul Ehrlich and the Magic Bullet<\/a><\/p>\n Medicine Through time<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Resources for Medicine Through Time<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Prehistoric Medicine<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ancient Egyptian Medicine<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ancient Greek Medicine<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Medicine in the Roman Empire<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Medieval Medicine<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Renaissance Medicine<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Public Health in the Industrial Revolution<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Fight against infectious disease<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Modern Medicine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vaccination Vaccination is a method of preventing somebody from catching a disease. The method involves injecting a person with a dead form of an infection. (Technically this is injection of dead pathogens which can’t reproduce, this means that should live pathogens be introduced they will be unable to live, therefore creating immunity to the infection).… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3759,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3783","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t