It is impossible to say just how many lives have been saved from the dreaded smallpox in the two centuries since a country doctor first performed a revolutionary procedure...
1796 JENNER’S MEDICAL MARVEL SIGNALS THE END OF MASS-KILLER DISEASE
From ancient times, the smallpox disease ravaged the globe, a effecting all civilisations and walks of life. With a devastating mortality rate and no The effective cure, millions died every year, and those who survived were left disfigured by deep scars – hence smallpox’s other name, ‘speckled monster’. It was a terribly successful killer, and might still be, were it not for English physician and surgeon Edward Jenner.
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