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  1. 1749-1823. English physician who pioneered
  2. vaccination. In Jenner's day, smallpox was a
  3. major killer. His discovery that inoculation
  4. with cowpox gives immunity to smallpox was a
  5. great medical breakthrough. He coined the
  6. word `vaccination' from the Latin word for
  7. cowpox, vaccina. Jenner observed that people
  8. who worked with cattle and contracted cowpox
  9. from them never subsequently caught smallpox.
  10. In 1798 he published his findings that a
  11. child inoculated with cowpox, then two months
  12. later with smallpox, did not get smallpox.
  13.