IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGICAL PREPARATIONS
The ‘science of immunology’ virtually saw the light of the day through the earnest efforts of Edward Jenner in 1798 who assumed to be true on the basis of reasoning that the value of ‘vaccination’ as a probable means of protection against the cowpox (vaccinia) ailment.
Abstract
The ‘science of immunology’ virtually saw the light of the day through the earnest efforts of Edward Jenner in 1798 who assumed to be true on the basis of reasoning that the value of ‘vaccination’ as a probable means of protection against the cowpox (vaccinia) ailment. In fact, it was Jenner who first and foremost suggested the protective means of ‘vaccination’ with non-virulent cowpox against smallpox infection. It is, however, pertinent to mention here that the science of immunology ultimately got its legitimate recognition as a branch of knowledge requiring systematic study and method only in 1881 when the entire universe witnessed an epoch making spate of progress put forward by two eminent scientists Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. In reality, Pasteur’s development of a vaccine for anthrax i.e., an acute infectious disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, using attenuated organisms was enormously hailed by many scientists across the globe.