1. Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23

   …hipps**. Sarah Nelmes, a dairymaid, confirmed that one of her **Gloucester cows** called **Blossom**, had recently had cowpox Jenner inserted pus taken from a cowpox pustule and inserted it into an incision on the boy's arm. He was testing his …
   …theory, drawn from the folklore of the countryside, that milkmaids who suffered the mild disease of cowpox never contracted smallpox, one of the greatest killers of the period, particularly amongst children. A farmer named Je…
   …sty from Yetminster in 1774 gave his wife Elizabeth and two eldest sons immunity by infecting them with cowpox. Jenner subsequently proved that having been inoculated with cowpox Phipps was immune to smallpox. He submitted a pape…

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