Edward Jenner’s Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae (1798) reports the twenty-three cases that founded immunisation: the dairymaids’ cowpox, the boy James Phipps inoculated and then challenged with smallpox, and the conclusion that changed the mortality of the world.
Short, momentous, and the reason smallpox no longer exists. Download the free EPUB.