Edward Jenner's Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, published in London in 1798, is the founding document of vaccination. Smallpox then killed or scarred a large share of every generation in Europe.
Edward Jenner · CatalogEdward JennerEdward Jenner · CatalogEdward Jenner (1749–1823) was a country doctor in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, and a pupil and lifelong friend of the London surgeon John Hunter.An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae (with Further Observations and A Continuation of Facts)
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