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Stuff You Missed in History Class

SYMHC Classics: Edward Jenner, Father of Vaccines

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.223.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We're revisiting a classic episode, all about early strides in treating smallpox, which has been around longer than recorded history. Edward Jenner made great strides in eradicating it.

Transcript

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0:33.1

Happy Saturday!

0:34.3

Today's classic is brought to you by a tidbit of information

0:38.1

that I stumbled across completely at random,

0:40.3

while doing research on something else entirely.

0:43.7

It's about Edward Jenner, known as the father of immunology,

0:47.1

thanks to his lifetime spent working with smallpox vaccines.

0:51.4

And we mentioned the work of the Reverend Cottonmother

0:54.2

and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston in combating a smallpox outbreak in Boston

0:59.2

in 1721, using a technique called variolation.

1:03.2

But what we don't say, what Tracy just learned,

1:05.4

was that mother first heard about this practice

1:07.8

from Oni Simus, an enslaved man,

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