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Edward Jenner and “Variolae Vaccinae”

The majority of what is presented has been taken directly from the books shown below. The aim is to illustrate the controversy and the depth of feeling surrounding the subject of vaccination during the life time of Edward Jenner. I have briefly added the parallel life and works of Hahnemann (for those with an interest in Homoeopathy) as it may help to highlight how advanced were his  scientific, medical and analytical thought processes.

Jenner  1759-1823

Hahanemann  1755–1843

“The closing years of  Jenner’s life were far from bright. Proofs of the fallacy of his vaccination fetish crowded around him; gathering clouds of discontent and failure darkened his spirit. “Never was I involved in so many perplexities.” He wrote to his friend Gardiner. It is said this was his last recorded sentence. Within two days he passed suddenly away whilst sitting in his arm chair.

Jenner died penniless in 1823. Before his death he declared that cowpox was smallpox of the cow and non-infectious. A view shared by Sir John Simon (high priest of the vaccination cult) who said “cowpox is smallpox and that a person who has had cowpox has really passed through smallpox.”

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