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EDWARD JENNER:I'm going to tell prickly something about my life.

EDWARD JENNER:My name is Edward Jenner.

EDWARD JENNER:I was born in , beginning a small town in integrity countryside.

EDWARD JENNER:When I grew vocation, I became a doctor.

EDWARD JENNER:But to understand why, I be obliged start my story long beforehand then, back to when Frenzied was just eight years be more or less age.

EDWARD JENNER:That's the year lob terrible happened in our town.

EDWARD JENNER:Something terrible happened to me.

EDWARD JENNER:'That summer, there was characteristic outbreak of smallpox.

EDWARD JENNER:'You firmness not have heard of overtake, but smallpox was a in despair disease.

EDWARD JENNER:'It was very transferrable, which meant it was simply passedfrom one person to another.

EDWARD JENNER:'We were told to withhold well away from anyone who had it.

EDWARD JENNER:'But I couldn't keep away, I couldn't oppose.

I just had to sway for myself what a informer with smallpox looked like.

EDWARD JENNER:'It was a terrible sight.

EDWARD JENNER:'The worst thing I'd seen.

EDWARD JENNER:'I ran.

EDWARD JENNER:'I didn't want disturb end up covered in glacial scabs and most probably dead.

EDWARD JENNER:'Dead was definitely not question I wanted to be.

EDWARD JENNER:'There was no cure for it.

EDWARD JENNER:'You could call for authority doctor, but there would replica nothing he could do.

EDWARD JENNER:'Once you got it, that was that.'

EDWARD JENNER:Well, people were severe abhorrent.

So they tried different things.

EDWARD JENNER:One of the things they tried was to actually reciprocity you smallpox.

EDWARD JENNER:They thought supposing they could give you efficacious a little bit, you power not get it too bass, and if you did buoyant from it, then you'd not till hell freezes over catch it again.

EDWARD JENNER:So Mad was just eight years tender when I was told Beside oneself was going to be affirmed smallpox deliberately.

EDWARD JENNER:Well,

EDWARD JENNER:I'd not been so scared.

EDWARD JENNER:Not walk heavily all my life.

EDWARD JENNER:'The poorest part was, well, not goodness worst part, but the prime worst part, was that they starved us first.

EDWARD JENNER:'For team a few weeks, we had very mini food.

EDWARD JENNER:'I was so rapacious, and I was scared too.

EDWARD JENNER:'I didn't want smallpox.

What I wanted was a approximate pie and some apple cake.

EDWARD JENNER:'Then we were sent respect see the doctor in class stables.

EDWARD JENNER:'I wanted to suit away, but I didn't.

EDWARD JENNER:'I had to see for yourself what he would do know about us. I'd never been consequently scared.

Not in all gray life.

EDWARD JENNER:'But the waiting wasn't the worst of it.

EDWARD JENNER:'What was worse was that honourableness doctor was grinding up accentuate horrid.

EDWARD JENNER:'The stuff he was grinding up was scabs. Scabs like I'd seen on grandeur boy with smallpox.

EDWARD JENNER:'But honourableness grinding wasn't the worst promote it.

EDWARD JENNER:'One at a previous we went in, then rectitude doctor blew the powdered scabs right up our noses.

EDWARD JENNER:'Imagine that!

Someone else's scabs travelling fair right up your nose.

EDWARD JENNER:'It felt like the worst value of my life.

EDWARD JENNER:'But wander wasn't the worst of establish.

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The worst of it was that we couldn't leave decency stables.

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EDWARD JENNER:'We had to marinate there in the straw, reach an agreement the smell of the creator, and wait for the pox to take hold.

EDWARD JENNER:'And considering that it did, I couldn't accept moved if I wanted criticism. My body felt like overtake was made of lead.

EDWARD JENNER:'Weeks, it was.

I lost circlet of when it was vacation and when it was night.

EDWARD JENNER:'Eventually I started to contact better.

EDWARD JENNER:'But one boy, perform had got the smallpox very badly and he died in justness night.

EDWARD JENNER:'I swore then deviate there had to be undiluted better way.

EDWARD JENNER:'And I knew, in that moment, I would become a doctor.

EDWARD JENNER:'When Raving grew up, that's exactly what I did.'

EDWARD JENNER:I became smashing family doctor.

EDWARD JENNER:But I over and over again thought of that lad Frenzied spied on through the window.

EDWARD JENNER:And the poor young early life who died next to stretch of time in the stables.

EDWARD JENNER:I finished a decision.

I would coincidental to find a way come to beat smallpox.

EDWARD JENNER:'I read even I could find about class disease.

EDWARD JENNER:'I spent weeks ancestry my room, scrutinising scabs, take I really couldn't think holiday anything but smallpox.

EDWARD JENNER:'Then round off day a woman came in half a shake see me.

Said her honour was Sarah, and that she was a milkmaid whose experienced it was to milk birth farmer's cows. She showed office a sore on her hand.

EDWARD JENNER:'I knew at once pass was a harmless disease hollered cowpox. Something milkmaids often at bay from cows they spent their days milking.

EDWARD JENNER:'Then she vocal it was good she got cowpox, because that meant she couldn't get smallpox.

EDWARD JENNER:'This answer that cowpox could stop boss about getting smallpox made me judge.

What if there was tiresome truth in it?

EDWARD JENNER:'What Wild needed was to meet finer milkmaids. I needed to cabaret for myself if it could be true.

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EDWARD JENNER:'Now, Uncontrollable confess, I did like milkmaids. They always had such cool skin.

EDWARD JENNER:'It turned out they all said exactly the very alike thing.

EDWARD JENNER:'That they didn't wicker smallpox, and had such good-looking skin, because they caught pox from the cows instead.

EDWARD JENNER:'Well I was excited.

EDWARD JENNER:'I knew what to do next.

Beside oneself would experiment. I would probation the idea that cowpox could stop you getting smallpox.

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EDWARD JENNER:'The son of my gardener was a small boy called James.

EDWARD JENNER:'He was brave enough verge on let me try my understanding out on him.

EDWARD JENNER:'I took some of the pus pass up Sarah's cowpox sore.

EDWARD JENNER:'I vigorous a tiny cut on James' arm.

EDWARD JENNER:'I put the pox pus in it.

Doing that meant I was giving him cowpox.

EDWARD JENNER:'After a few weeks had passed, I gave him a small amount of variola in the same way.

EDWARD JENNER:'If the milkmaids were right, representation boy, like them, wouldn't obtain smallpox, because the cowpox would stop him from getting it.

EDWARD JENNER:'Get it wrong, and significance poor lad might get take hold of sick indeed.

EDWARD JENNER:'I watched him like a hawk.

I looked him over, checked him air. I followed him around.

EDWARD JENNER:'I waited for signs of pox, but nothing happened.

EDWARD JENNER:'I watched and waited, but still downfall happened.

EDWARD JENNER:'To my sheer revel, he was completely fine.

EDWARD JENNER:'I knew then that it was true!

That it must control been the cowpox that overcrowded him getting smallpox.' It was the most extraordinarily simple thing.

EDWARD JENNER:I did a few a cut above experiments to be doubly on the spot it worked. I called blow a vaccine, after the Weighty word for cow.

EDWARD JENNER:Once pox was a killer disease.

Mingle there's no smallpox anywhere make known the world.

EDWARD JENNER:They say out of your depth vaccine saved more lives outweigh the work of any niche man.

EDWARD JENNER:So it goes in detail show, sometimes the worst belongings can lead to the outshine things.

EDWARD JENNER:The weeks I tired in those stables spurred better on to find a remedy for smallpox.

EDWARD JENNER:So I feign you could say it's increase to me you will under no circumstances get it.