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But nevertheless, there was a spirited debate
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over the whole issue of whether,
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on balance, inoculation saved
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many more lives than it killed.
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Well, that brings us to this figure,
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a decisive figure in the history of medicine
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and public health, and that is Edward Jenner.
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It was in the context of this smallpox catastrophe of the
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eighteenth century, and of disappointments and
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anxieties surrounding inoculation,
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that we see a decisive discovery in the history of
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medicine and public health,