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 Early Modern

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

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1806

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