Valuable Discovery
About 150 years ago one out of every twelve people in England died of smallpox. There was a saying “from smallpox and love remain free.” Then in 1796 Edward Jenner, an English doctor, made a discovery which protected people from this terrible disease so that today there are very few cases of smallpox in England. He found that it was possible to protect people from smallpox by giving them a weaker form of the disease called cowpox. He did this by putting cowpox germs into their bodies. The germs were taken away from a cow which had cowpox. The Latin name for a cow is vacca, so protecting people by putting this germ of cowpox into them was called vaccination. All over the world today people are protected from smallpox by vaccination.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 3, 4 October 1948, Page 2
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134Valuable Discovery Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 3, 4 October 1948, Page 2
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