Preventing Illness and Disease

Evaluate the effectiveness of attempts to prevent illness and disease over time.
Describe early methods of disease prevention during the Black Death, including alchemy, soothsayers, and medieval doctors.
Analyze the application of science to disease prevention in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Assess the significance of Edward Jenner's work and the development of vaccination.
Explain the influence and spread of inoculation since 1700.
Understand the discovery of antibodies and subsequent developments in the field of bacteriology.

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