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It was Edward Jenner, in England.
He had noticed that milkmaids never got smallpox. But they were prone to cowpox.
He reasoned something like cowpox - hardly deadly - prevented smallpox, and he was right.
>Actually, I think it was in Boston, MA...
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>>>... By the way, wasn't it a slave that actually had the idea of giving a sample of an infection to people to build up their immunity? I think his owner got the credit for it though.
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>>Wasn't that something to do with an English milk maid who had cow-pox on her arms and stuff? She didn't suffer from smallpox or something. They gave a sample of her pox to some kid and he lived through smallpox. Bit vague the memory but essentially along those lines. :-)
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