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Varoliation vs Vaccination: the eye of the needle goes full circle
1796: English physician Edward Jenner, his eye ever on the ladies, notes that dairy maids aren't prone to smallpox-and invents "vaccination" by practicing on young eight year old James Phipps using cowpox matter.
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