Inoculation
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Inoculation is the act of implanting a pathogen or other microbe or virus into a person or other organism. It is a method of artificially inducing immunity against various infectious diseases. The ter
Mary Wortley Montagu, by Charles Jervas, after 1716
Edward Jenner
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Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived fr
Inoculation
…referred only to variolation (from the Latin word variola = smallpox), the predecessor to the smallpox vaccine. The smallpox vaccine, introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796, was called cowpox inoculation or vaccine inoculation (from Latin vacca 'cow'). Smallpox inoculation continued to be called variolation, whereas…
Portrait by John Raphael Smith, 1800
Jenner's handwritten draft describing the first vaccination is held at the Royal College of Surgeons in London
Jenner's 1802 testimonial to the efficacy of vaccination, signed by 112 members of the Physical Society, London
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