Origin of Inoculation
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Immunization is the treatment done to boost a person’s immunity to fight diseases. The introduction of inoculation was done in New England and Britain to save people from smallpox. This essay will focus on the paper, “The Origins of Vaccination” and how the author presents his information. The practice leaves people curious about the vaccination that was discovered in a time when people lacked knowledge of viruses. It was done in the 10th century by injecting an individual with pus collected from an infected person. The author presents the information as Materia medica. The vaccination was used because of its healing properties. These are seen with the Chinese, where they treated the recipes with ultimate care by storing them at body temperatures. They avoided any occurrence of new infections by reducing any damages to the viruses. The treatment, however, incorporated the use of herbs when steaming. A trial in London backfired, and the procedure was not repeated.
Variolation, which is named after the causal agent of this devastating infection, was an effective way of controlling the disease back then. It reduced the number of deaths that occurred as a result of the virus. Given the opportunity to travel back to those days, the main question I would want to be addressed is how the people got convinced to accept variolation. It was easy for anyone to consider the practice dangerous because it was exposing them to the virus itself. Persons who stayed close to the infected people were at higher risk of getting the infection, and the disease killed millions of people. It would also be essential to understand the safety of the injection.