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Cotton Mather

October 16, 2014, Filed Under: Research + Teaching

Contemporary debates on vaccination policies have historical parallels in Ransom Center’s collections

Page 32 from “An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccine” by Edward Jenner, 1798. In Jenner’s 17th case study, he inoculates for the first time a healthy patient who has no previous exposure to cowpox or smallpox. “I selected a healthy boy, about eight years old, for the purpose of inoculation for the Cow Pox. The matter was taken from the sore on the hand of a dairymaid, who was infected by her master’s cows…”

Recently, The New York Times published an article on vaccination that has highlighted a resurging controversy. In late June 2014, a federal judge upheld a New York City policy barring unimmunized children from public schools, and objectors have decried the policy as an infringement upon their rights. In the United… read more 

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