Vaccination Against Smallpox

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Prometheus Books, 1996 - Literary Collections - 91 pages
A no-nonsense introductory electronics text reviewing all basic electronic and semiconductor principles and describing the the basic electronic components for practical application. Cook covers diodes and diode circuits, transistors and transistor circuits, integrated circuits, and thyristors and tranducers. Each section is fully illustrated in an attractive format, and supplies self-test review questions, multiple choice exercises, and practice problems. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Edward Jenner (1749 - 1823) was an English physician who observed that dairymaids who had had cowpox did not get small pox. He then vaccinated James Phipps, a boy of eight, with matter from cowpox. After several weeks, it became apparent that, because the boy had been inoculated, he did not contract smallpox. Jenner then published his results in Inquiry into the Cause and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae (1798), thus proving the worth of vaccination.

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