STORY OF DR JENNER

Series: Passing Parade Series

Duration: 10 min

Creator: Teaching Film Custodians, Inc

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Description: An MGM production available only to schools. "Pictures first an advancing shadow covering the map of Europe. From the plague of smallpox, killing one million people, in each century for there was no remedy but charms and superstitions." "In England, Dr. Jenner is a country doctor. Before a pest house, guarded by soldiers, Jenner enters a home of a child whose inside he enters to help, but the child is dead as were all in the town to the dairy whose workers, strangely, are immune. Workers are sometimes affected by the mild disease of cowpox. While there, he notices a local milkmaid on whose hand had been cut, had an attack of cowpox. And Jenner ponders, the boy had probably ingested, unknowingly, from the dairymaid sweetheart and thus unknowingly saved himself from smallpox." "Later, in the doctor's home, the widow is assured for the health of her remaining child but is assured by a doctor that it is only stomach ache. Jenner determines to give the child cowpox and to do it he extracts the fluid from the dairymaid's skin and vaccinates the child. Jenner is distrusted and his home is stoned. His plague returns and many dead are again ridiculed, and he returns home. But the plague returns and many dead are again carried away." "The shadow of plague withdraws from the map. Recommended for general science classes in the second year of senior high school. Also of value for college courses in public health and health education." Advisory committee

Complete Record: Series: Passing parade series Dewey number: 616.9 Audience level: el-jh-sh-c-trade-adult Format/cost: 16-sd-apply Distributors / rental: Not shown in source

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946