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Dr. Edward Jenner
English physician and scientist Edward Jenner pioneered the smallpox vaccine in 1796 when he inoculated a young boy, James Phipps, with pustules of cowpox, a disease similar to but much milder than smallpox.
Courtesy National Library of Medicine
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J. R. Smith
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An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae..., 1802
Edward Jenner's <em>An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae...,</em> 1802, offers 23 case studies detailing his experiment and observations of the protective effects of cowpox against smallpox through innoculation.
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