{"id":288,"date":"2004-09-15T12:57:31","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T18:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2004\/09\/15\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-9\/"},"modified":"2004-09-15T12:57:31","modified_gmt":"2004-09-15T18:57:31","slug":"notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2004\/09\/15\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The  Foundation of Immunology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edward Jenner  (1749-1823). <em>An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae  vaccinae, a disease\u2026known by the name of the cow pox<\/em>. London, Printed for  the author by S. Low, 1798.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2007\/04\/jenner8.jpg\" alt=\"Edward Jenner (1749-1823). An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae, a disease\u2026known by the name of the cow pox. London, Printed for the author by S. Low, 1798.\" class=\"imgborder\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>On the basis of an old country tradition that milkmaids who had contracted cowpox (a relatively mild disease) were not susceptible to the dreaded smallpox, Edward Jenner, an English country physician, decided to inject cowpox-infected lymph into a local boy. After the inoculation, the boy was found to be immune to smallpox and Jenner continued his experiments and summarized his finding in this epochal work published in 1798. By 1803 his work had been translated into numerous languages and his method of immunization was taken up with amazing speed, becoming almost universally adopted. The medical historian, Fielding H. Garrison has called Jenner\u2019s work \u201cone of the greatest triumphs in the history of medicine.\u201d It is the foundation of all subsequent work in immunology and virology. [adopted from <a href=\"http:\/\/itsnt361.iowa.uiowa.edu\/fmi\/xsl\/hardin\/heirs\/record_detail.xsl?-db=heirs&amp;-lay=WebLayout&amp;-recid=1239&amp;-find=\">Heirs of Hippocrates<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foundation of Immunology Edward Jenner (1749-1823). An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae, a disease\u2026known by the name of the cow pox. London, Printed for the author by S. Low, 1798. On the basis of an old country tradition that milkmaids who had contracted cowpox (a relatively mild disease) were<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2004\/09\/15\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-9\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}