“On May 14, 1796, the physician Edward Jenner took disease matter [pus] from the hand of a milkmaid he believed had cowpox and inoculated an 8-year-old boy with it, then in July, inoculated the boy with smallpox, and after the child did not catch smallpox from the inoculation, declared that his vaccine would be 100% effective for life“. [1, 2]
With this pronouncment Jenner coined the terms vaccine and vaccination. Vaccination is the process of inoculating a person with vaccine to ward off smallpox. Inoculation is done by scoring the skin on the arm and the variola vaccina (“small-pox of the cow” or cowpox, ,where vacca is Latin for cow, called vaccine) is rubbed into the wound, a vaccine vesicle is formed with would leave a scar. The scar created by the vaccine would be considered proof of vaccination and a sign of immunity against smallpox.
Jenner’s method uses the already existing variolation technique which had been used with smallpox pus (variola), Jenner’s claim to fame is the use of cowpox (vaccina) and not smallpox (variola), believing it less dangerous (safe), but still able to render the vaccinated immune against smallpox (effective). The practice of variolation was adopted in England in April 1721, a concept introduced by Lady Mary Wortley Montague.
Jenner published his experiments in 1798, 1799 & 1800, though he was challenged on the claim of discovery, and the question of the day was whether vaccine inoculation did actually warded off smallpox.
It became clear that the “smallpox vaccine” was unable to prevent disease as initially promised, so the medical authorities moved the goal posts from lifelong “perfect” immunity to “milder disease” to justify vaccination, a tactic that has since repeated with other vaccination campaigns. Deaths following vaccination were common but often not reported because of an allegiance to the practice of vaccination, they would fill out the death certificate with another disease or label “unvaccinated” – corrupting the vital statistics. [1]
Smallpox vaccination was made compulsory in England in 1853 and the US in 1855, and as the vaccinated still got smallpox, the authorities then required re-vaccination (boosters) every year. The more they vaccinated the more epidemics arose and even with 95% vaccination coverage, smallpox was still prevalent. Vaccination did not diminish the incidence of death by smallpox , unlike Scarlet Fever which was deadly but ran it’s course and disappeared, without a ‘vaccine’! [3]
Sometimes the vaccine was taken from on persons inoculation pock and use to inoculate anthers, in time the bellies of calves were scraped and infected then lymph was taken to inoculate humans. All maner of diseases were spread by small pox vaccination such as syphillis, tuberculosis and foot and mouth.
To this day there is an “unquestionable faith in vaccination”, with a forgotten history suffering and death as a result of the vaccination, and mass protest against it (such as Leicester model).