who invented the medicine for smallpoxs?

Question

who figured out how to cure smallpox

Answer 1

There is no medicine for smallpox. However, there is a vaccination for it. With vaccinations, your own body's immune system fights the smallpox virus and prevents the disease. On the other hand, medicine is a chemical substance that is introduced into your body and that substance actively treat the problem. (The reason that I mention this is to point out the fundamental difference between vaccines and medicines.)

Historically, the first written account in the attempt to treat smallpox were Buddhist nun around 1022 to 1063 AD. These nuns practice the process called "variolation - a process of exposing a healthy person to infected material from a person with smallpox in the hopes of producing a mild disease that provided immunity from further infection." They " would grind up scabs taken from a person infected with smallpox into a powder, and then blow it into the nostrils of a non-immune person. By the 1700's, this method of variolation was common practice in China, India, and Turkey. In the late 1700's European physicians used this and other methods of variolation, but reported "devastating" results in some cases. Overall, 2% to 3% of people who were variolated died of smallpox, but this practice decreased the total number of smallpox fatalities by 10-fold."

Edward Jenner, an English physician, realized that milk maidens (females who milk cows) who developed cowpox, a less serious disease, were immune to smallpox. He innoculated the pustules from the milkmaids to a small boy and later exposured the boy to smallpox. The small boy did not develop small pox. (As a footnote, this is medically and morally unethical to do today.) Subsequently this became widely accepted and done. (Another footnote, the word vaccine has its orgins here. Vaca- is latin for cow).

In terms of using a weaker strain of small pox for a vaccine, Wyeth, the pharmaceutical company, was the first to market a smallpox vaccine.

http://dermatology.about.com/cs/smallpox/a/smallpoxhx.htm

Answer 2

Jenner:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine

Answer 3

Hārūn al-Rashīd (March 17, 763 – March 24, 809) was the fifth and most famous Abbasid Caliph. The Caliph is the head of state in a Caliphate, and the title for the leader of the Islamic Ummah, an Islamic community ruled by the Shari'a. He wasnt really into the medicinal field during those days. its actually one of his subject who was well versed in medicine. AIbn Seena and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna was a Persian Muslim polymath and foremost physician and philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, Hafiz, logician, mathematician, poet, physicist, scientist, Sheikh, soldier, statesman and theologian. Ibn Sīnā's works numbered almost 450 volumes on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 volumes of his surviving works concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine. His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and The Canon of Medicine, which was a standard medical text at many Islamic and European universities up until the early 19th century. Ibn Sīnā developed a medical system that combined his own personal experience with that of Islamic medicine, the medical system of Galen, Aristotelian metaphysics, and ancient Persian, Mesopotamian and Indian medicine. Ibn Sīnā is regarded as a father of early modern medicine, particularly for his introduction of systematic experimentation and quantification into the study of physiology, his discovery of the contagious nature of infectious diseases, the introduction of quarantine to limit the spread of contagious diseases, the introduction of experimental medicine, evidence-based medicine, clinical trials, randomized controlled trials,efficacy tests,clinical pharmacology, neuropsychiatry, risk factor analysis, and the idea of a syndrome, and the importance of dietetics and the influence of climate and environment on health. He is also considered the father of the fundamental concept of momentum in physics, and regarded as a pioneer of aromatherapy.

Answer 4

Edward Jenner through noting that milk maids who had been exposed to cow pox didn't get small pox.

Answer 5

I believe it was Alexander Fleming.

Answer 6

It was Louis Pasteur....I'm sure

Answer 7

not invented but discovered...by who...don't know