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Edward Jenner was the discoverer of small pox vaccination. Vaccination prevents men from falling sick. Small pox was a very dreaded disease in 18th century and earlier. Cow pox was a milder disease with similar symptoms. It was a disease of cows.

A milkmaid came to Jenner seeking his advice. She told him that she suffered from cow pox. Jenner took some fluid from a cow pox sore on the milk maid's finger. Then he injected it into an eight year old boy who had mild attack of cow pox.

After seven weeks, Jenner took some fluid from the sore of a man suffering from small pox and injected into the arm of the boy. The boy was not affected by small pox germs.

This proved that he had become immune to small pox due to cow pox. Jenner went on collecting cow pox fluid consistently for the formulation of small pox vaccination. Thus the practice of vaccinating for the prevention of small pox became wide spread.

Jenner's vaccinations helped wipeout this harmful disease which prevailed at that time. Vaccinations are injected into our body making its natural defense system to produce antibiotics which kill germs and protects white blood cells that combat that type of infection. If the body in case be invaded by these germs, it would be ready to destroy them immediately.