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Volume 335:900-902 September 19, 1996 Number 12
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Smallpox

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by Herron, C.
To the Editor: Herron provides striking photographs of a patient with smallpox in the May 16 issue.1 Of course, 1996 is the 200th anniversary of Edward Jenner's first use of vaccination against smallpox, in Berkeley, England. Jenner's courageous act was not inoculating pus from a cowpox lesion into a small boy, but later inoculating pus from a smallpox lesion into that boy to prove his immunity. This would certainly be a controversial experiment today.


James Magner, M.D.
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4354

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  1. Herron C. Smallpox -- 26 years ago. N Engl J Med 1996;334:1304-1304. [Free Full Text]
 
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