Edward Jenner—I
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as the vanquisher of smallpox, which for centuries before his time had ravaged the world. The principle of inoculation for the prevention of disease dates back to a period of great antiquity, and as a protection against smallpox it, appears to have had its origin in India, where inoculation with actual virus taken from the smallpox pustule is said to have been known over 1,000 years before the time of Christ. The practice passed from India to China, where as early as the fourteenth century there is record of a kind of inoculation having been used for smallpox. Savage races in various parts of Africa appear also to have known and practised inoculation as a protection from the disease. From Asia and Africa the knowledge of inoculation
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