Medicine Through TimeHigh Exam FrequencyAQA

Jenner and Vaccination

Revise Jenner and Vaccination in Medicine Through Time for GCSE History with 8 exam-style questions and 5 flashcards. This is a high-frequency exam topic, so students should expect to explain it clearly under timed conditions.

Sample Flashcards

What was variolation (inoculation)?
Deliberately infecting someone with mild smallpox material to build immunity — used before Jenner's vaccine but risky (could cause full smallpox)
What observation led to Jenner's discovery?
Milkmaids who had cowpox never got smallpox

Sample Questions

Who was the boy Jenner injected with cowpox in his 1796 experiment?

  • A. Thomas Sydenham
  • B. James Phipps
  • C. Louis Pasteur
  • D. Robert Koch
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In which year did vaccination against smallpox become compulsory in Britain?

  • A. 1798
  • B. 1840
  • C. 1853
  • D. 1980
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exam-style questions

5

revision flashcards

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