Beware the effects of vaccination!

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On this day in 1796, Edward Jenner first innoculated against Smallpox by infecting a small boy with immunizing cowpox germs, taken from a milkmaid's hand. His opponents, however, spread the tale that those vaccinated would turn into cows, like "a child at Peckham who, after being innoculated with the cowpox, had his former natural disposition absolutely changed; so that he ran upon all fours bellowing like a cow, and butting with its head like a bull".


You have been warned!