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 Lady Mary Wortley Monagu was instrumental in bringing vaccination to GB in 1718, after seeing variolation (inoculation as a method of purposefully infecting a person with smallpox (Variola) in a controlled manner so as to minimise the severity of the infection and also to induce immunity against further infection) in Istanbul
-In 1796, Edward Jenner innoculated James Phipps, a young boy, with material from the cowpox blisters of the hand of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom, to prove that infection with cowpox gave immunity to smallpox
+In 1796, Edward Jenner inoculated James Phipps, a young boy, with material from the cowpox blisters of the hand of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom, to prove that infection with cowpox gave immunity to smallpox
 == Alternative medicine ==

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-Drugs
+== Drugs ==
 ACE inhibitors – or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, are a group of drugs that are used primarily in treatment of hypertension and heart failure
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 ZMapp – an experimental biopharmaceutical drug comprising three humanized monoclonal antibodies under development as a treatment for Ebola virus disease
+== Tropical diseases ==
 African trypanosomiasis – sleeping sickness, is a parasitic disease of people and animals, caused by protists of the species ''Trypanosoma brucei'' and transmitted by the tsetse fly
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 Yellow fever virus – transmitted by the bite of female mosquitos (the yellow fever mosquito, ''Aedes aegypti'', and other species)
+== Eye disorders ==
 Amblyopia – a visual disorder in which the brain partially or wholly ignores input from one eye. Also known as ‘lazy eye’
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 Trachoma – (Ancient Greek: ‘rough eye’) is an infectious eye disease
+== Cardiovascular disorders ==
 Anemia – a decrease in number of red blood cells or less than the normal quantity of hemoglobin in the blood
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 Vascular occlusion – a sudden blockage of a blood vessel, usually with a clot
+== Genetic disorders ==
 Achondroplasia – common cause of dwarfism. May be inherited as a genetic disorder
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 Turner syndrome – (X chromosome instead of XX or XY)
+== Cancer ==
 Carcinoma – the most common type of cancer occurring in humans. A cancer that begins in a tissue that lines the inner or outer surfaces of the body, and that generally arises from cells originating in the endodermal or ectodermal germ layer during embryogenesis
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 Tumour – a neoplasm that has formed a lump
+== Sexually transmitted diseases ==
 Chlamydia infection – one of the most common sexually transmitted infections worldwide; it is estimated that about 1 million individuals in the United States are infected with Chlamydia
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 Syphilis – caused by the spirochete bacterium ''Treponema pallidum''. Syphilis may have been carried to Europe by the returning crewmen from Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas
+== Vitamin deficiencies ==
 Vitamin A – retinol (carotene). Night blindness
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 Vitamin K – phytomenadione. Haemorrhagic problems. Required for blood coagulation
+== Mineral deficiencies ==
 Calcium – rickets
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 Hyponatraemia – an electrolyte disturbance in humans that exists when the sodium concentration in the plasma falls below a critical level. At lower levels water intoxication may result
+== Viruses ==
 Baltimore classification (first defined in 1971) is a classification system that places viruses into one of seven groups
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 Poliomyelitis – often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute, viral, infectious disease. Poliomyelitis was first recognized as a distinct condition by Jakob Heine in 1840. Its causative agent, poliovirus, was identified in 1908 by Karl Landsteiner
-Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) – a respiratory disease in humans which is caused by the SARS coronavirus
+Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) is the virus that causes COVID-19. It is the successor to SARS-CoV-1, the virus that caused the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak
 Smallpox – an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor
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 Herpes labialis (cold sores) – caused by a virus
+== Vaccines ==
 Vaccine – a preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen, such as a bacterium or virus, or of a portion of the pathogen's structure that upon administration stimulates antibody production or cellular immunity against the pathogen but is incapable of causing severe infection
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 In 1796, Edward Jenner innoculated James Phipps, a young boy, with material from the cowpox blisters of the hand of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom, to prove that infection with cowpox gave immunity to smallpox
+== Alternative medicine ==
 Homeopathy – first defined by Samuel Hahnemann in the 18th century. Homeopathic practitioners maintain that an ill person can be treated using a substance that can produce, in a healthy person, symptoms similar to those of the illness
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 Stylostixis – type of acupuncture
+== Imaging techniques ==
 Computed tomography (CT) – a medical imaging method employing tomography created by computer processing. Digital geometry processing is used to generate a three-dimensional image of the inside of an object from a large series of two-dimensional X-ray images taken around a single axis of rotation. Older and less preferred terms that also refer to X-ray CT are computed axial tomography (CAT scan) and computer-aided/assisted tomography
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 Positron emission tomography (PET) – a nuclear medicine imaging technique which produces a three-dimensional image or picture of functional processes in the body. The system detects pairs of gamma rays emitted indirectly by a positron-emitting radionuclide (tracer), which is introduced into the body on a biologically active molecule
+== Other diseases, disorders and syndromes ==
 Addison’s disease – a rare, chronic endocrine disorder in which the adrenal glands do not produce sufficient steroid hormones (glucocorticoids and often mineralocorticoids)
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 Whitlow – (or felon) is an infection of the tip of the finger
+== Glossary ==
 Apgar score – devised in 1952 by Dr. Virginia Apgar as a simple and repeatable method to quickly and summarily assess the health of newborn children immediately after childbirth. The Apgar score is determined by evaluating the newborn baby on five simple criteria on a scale from zero to two, then summing up the five values thus obtained. The resulting Apgar score ranges from zero to 10. The five criteria (Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration) are used as a mnemonic
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 Zoonoses – diseases caught from animals
+== Veterinary medicine ==
 Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) affects cats worldwide

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