The war against smallpox [electronic resource] : Edward Jenner and the global spread of vaccination / Michael John Bennett, University of Tasmania.

"This is the global history of early vaccination. In the late eighteenth century, Jenner demonstrated that inoculating cowpox could be an effective and viable means of preventing smallpox and, by using humanised cowpox (vaccine) drawn from children subject to the procedure, hit on the means to make...

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