THE ATHENAEUMAn Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae VaccinaeEdward Jenner
Medicine
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textEdward Jenner, a country doctor at Berkeley in Gloucestershire, had heard that dairymaids who caught cowpox did not take the smallpox. In 1796 he tested it on James Phipps, the eight-year-old son of his gardener, and in 1798 he published this account himself. The word vaccine comes from vacca, Latin for a cow.
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