About Edward Jenner: Edward Jenner is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other human".
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. From the love of splendour, from the indulgences of luxury, and from his fondness for amusement he has familiar...
I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.
I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
