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that liquid material from a smallpox pustule--
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you saw those last time--
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of a patient selected for having a
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very mild case was allowed to
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soak into a thread.
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The thread was then inserted into a superficial cut,
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made with the lancet--this sharp instrument that you've
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seen pictures of, in an earlier lecture--into the
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arm of the person to be protected,
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and fastened there for twenty-four hours.
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Twelve days later, the subject usually fell ill
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with smallpox; hopefully suffered from a mild