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of the medical ethics of that particular experiment--
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in 1798 Edward Jenner wrote
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one of the most influential works in
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the history of medicine, inquiring into the causes and
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effects of the Variola vaccinae.
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His genius was not just to devise the experiment;
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that was scientifically flawed, perhaps, in the sense that he
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extrapolated from a very small database.
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But in any case, the point is that he recognized
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the significance of what he'd discovered.
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He thought that he saw immediately the possibility of
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eradicating smallpox from the planet,