Edward Jenner — "How wonderful that this horrid pestilence should at this time even have an exist…"

How wonderful that this horrid pestilence should at this time even have an existence in our island . . . A Physician from Copenhagen call'd on me today, and express'd his astonishment at an opposition to vaccine Inoculation, as by that means only the smallpox was completely extinguish'd in that City.
Edward Jenner — Edward Jenner Early Modern · Smallpox vaccine

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In a letter to the Rev. Mr. Joyce, expressing frustration and disbelief at the continued opposition to vaccination in England.

Date: 1806

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