The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities smallpox was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie.
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I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.Edward Jenner
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
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I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.
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An Inquiry into Cause and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Countries of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of Cow; Pox.
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