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Vaccines Didn't Save Us From Smallpox

I heard two neighbours talk the other night
About this new distemper-giving plan
Which some so wrong, and others think so right
Short was the dialogue, and thus it ran:

"If I had twenty children of my own,
I would inoculate them every one."

"Aye, but should any of them die, what moan
Would then be made for venturing thereupon!"

"No, I should think that I had done the best,
And be resigned whatever should befal."

"But could you really be quite so at rest?"

"I could." - "Then why inoculate at all?
Since to resign a child to God , who gave,
Is full as easy and as just a part,
When sick, and led by nature to the grave,
As, when in health, to drive it there by art."

Written by Dr. John Byrom, of Manchester UK, who died in 1763.

THE HISTORY OF VACCINATION

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Rev. Cotton Mather, who Performed The First Vaccinations in 1722

Many people including the medical establishment incorrectly ascribe the practice of vaccination to Edward Jenner, but in actual fact, it had been in practice years before he carried out his first vaccination on the 14th May, 1796.

As you can see from the above poem, its author died in 1763 and it had obviously been written some time before that. It is thought to have originated in Turkey and was first practiced in the USA and UK in 1722.

Rev. Cotton Mather was not a doctor, but a vicar and an intensely religious and superstitous man who was heavily involved in the Salem witch trials and who murdered traditional medicine women by burning them at the stake because he suspected them of doing black witchcraft. His reasoning, therefore, that people did not die of smallpox if they were exposed to an entirely different disease - cowpox - is in keeping with his superstitous nature.

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