inventor smallpox innoculation?

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The first experimentation with a vaccine actually was done with smallpox. In the late 1800's Edward Jenner made a discovery that when milkmaids got a disease called cowpox they did not get smallpox. Well cowpox is not fatal so he inoculated a farmers son with cowpox virus and sometime later he inoculated the same boy with smallpox virus. Jenner was correct the boy did get cowpox, but never got the deadly smallpox. He tried the experiment several times again all with the same result. So Jenner gets the credit for creating vaccinations. In fact the word vaccina is derived from cow, and Jenner named his new technique vaccination. Diane D is correct I got my dates wrong.

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I agree with the previous answer but it actually was in 1796 that Jenner did his experiment that showed that inoculation with cowpox prevented smallpox. Jenner self published a pamphlet 2 years later describing his method, and in 1800 the first vaccinations were done in the US.

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