
One Medicine: Animal Experiments and the Making of Modern Medical Science
Dig: A History Podcast
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The Origins of Animal Medicine
Foot and mouth became a panzoeutic in 1755, the 1760s and into the late 1770s. Dairy farmers began experimenting with purposely infecting their children and servants with cowpox because they noticed dairy maids who had contracted cowpox were immune to smallpox. Physician Edward Jenner eventually heard tell of these goings on and conducted a few experiments himself; he later published his findings that vaccination significantly reduced one's chances of contracting smallpox.
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