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 Translation for 'cowpox' from English to French
NOUN   cowpox | -
SYNO cowpox | vaccinia
méd.
vaccine {f}
cowpox
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Translation for 'cowpox' from English to French

cowpox
vaccine {f}méd.
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Usage Examples English
  • George Pearson FRS (1751–1828) was a British physician, chemist and early advocate of Jenner's cowpox vaccination.
  • In 1796, Edward Jenner developed a method using cowpox to successfully immunize a child against smallpox. The same principles are used for developing vaccines today.
  • Donald Hopkins has written, "Jenner's unique contribution was not that he inoculated a few persons with cowpox, but that he then proved subsequent challenges that they were immune to smallpox.
  • Adams believed (erroneously) that cowpox and smallpox were the same disease.
  • The notion that those people infected with cowpox, a relatively mild disease, were subsequently protected against smallpox was not an uncommon observation with country folk in the late 18th century, but Jesty was one of the first to intentionally administer the less virulent virus.

  • James Phipps (1788 – 1853) was the first person given the experimental cowpox vaccine by Edward Jenner.
  • It carried 22 orphan boys (aged 3 to 10) to act as carriers of the cowpox virus.
  • At some point, the virus in use was no longer cowpox, but vaccinia.
  • The first smallpox vaccine, developed by Edward Jenner, used cowpox to prevent smallpox infection.
  • Hume's medical writings were on the subjects of the diseases of children, angina pectoris, cowpox, and gout.

  • He studied cowpox vaccination from Bernard Jean Bettelheim, the first Christian missionary to Ryukyu, in 1846.
  • In 1790, Plett was employed as a home tutor in Schönweide where he learnt from milkmaids about cowpox preventing humans from being infected with smallpox.
  • On questioning, this subject had never had smallpox, but had previously contracted cowpox.
  • Knowledge of the ability of cowpox to provide immunity from smallpox was present in England before Jenner's discovery.
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