History GCSE
Vaccination
What Vaccination means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Vaccination
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Edward Jenner's development of the smallpox vaccination in 1798, which used cowpox and replaced the dangerous practice of inoculation.
Topics that use Vaccination
- Option 11: c1700–c1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain - 2 Approaches to prevention and treatment (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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Using Vaccination in the exam
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