Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Inventors & Inventions

Smallpoxtook millions of lives in the past. It killed people in Asia,Africa and Europe. Doctorscould do little to help. Attempts to cure the desease were made in China, India and North Africa. Edward Jenner saved people.He lovednature, birds and wild animals. He studied various plants and threes. He finished his stydies for a doctor and returned to his quite village. H e proved that people who had cow-pox never catch small-pox. The Latin word for "cow" is "vacca" and so Jenner called his work "vaccination". The year was 1796. No other vaccine was discovered until 1876 when Luis Pasteur used the same method.


Isaac Newton was the discoverer of the law of the gravitation. . In his early years he could make things with his hands.His neighboursthought that one day he would probanly bbecome a click maker. When he grew older he took great interest in mathematics. His discovery explains the movement of the planets as well as the bodieson the earth.






William Harvey was the English doctor who discovered the circulation of the blood. He studied at Cambridge and then in Italy. He watched the work of the heart of living animals. He set up in London and became a well-known doctor and leturer at the Royal College of Medicine.
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