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Explain the concepts of Vaccination and Inoculation,why was there so much opposition? In the eighteenth century, the disease smallpox was the cause of a number of deaths.
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Explain the concepts of Vaccination and Inoculation, why was there so much opposition? In the eighteenth century, the disease smallpox was the cause of a number of deaths. It was becoming a major worry that smallpox would become a global epidemic, and perhaps wipe out a great deal of the population. The inventions of inoculation and vaccinations prevented this, as well as a number of other diseases. The smallpox inoculation was introduced into Britain in 1721, it was already being used for a similar situation in China. An inoculation meant injecting a small dose of the disease into the patients body, so the body could fight off the disease. Lady Mary Wortley Montague came back from the east, prepared to inoculate her own children, who incidentally did not catch smallpox. These were the first professional inoculations in England, and were influential in persuading doctors to look more carefully into the...
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