Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain.
An early method of preventing disease by deliberately rubbing a mild dose of smallpox into a cut to create immunity, which carried a high risk of death or causing an epidemic.
Inoculation appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Medicine in Britain and the Western Front, especially Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain and Case Studies: Vaccinations and Cholera.
Medicine in Britain and the Western Front
Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain • Case Studies: Vaccinations and Cholera
Medicine in Britain and the Western Front
Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain • Approaches to Prevention and Treatment
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