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Quotation from An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae (with Further Observations and A Continuation of Facts) by Edward Jenner
“The more accurately to observe the progress of the infection I selected a healthy boy, about eight years old, for the purpose of inoculation for the cow-pox.”
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae (with Further Observations and A Continuation of Facts), An Inquiry (1798), Case XVII
Jenner introduces the experiment of May 1796 that began vaccination.
Citation: "The more accurately to observe the progress of the infection I selected a healthy boy, about eight years old, for the purpose of inoculation for the cow-pox." — Edward Jenner, An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae (with Further Observations and A Continuation of Facts), An Inquiry (1798), Case XVII. (id jenner-inquiry-into-the-variolae-vaccinae-q1)
