"Variolation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thus see that the question of a small-pox prophylactic was wavering between the monstrous assumption that everybody must necessarily have small-pox, and had better set about it, and the milder notion of vaccine as an antidote, if the real thing should come. The old custom of variolation had not been discarded, and the experience of the Gloucestershire milkmaids had not crystalized into the form of vaccination to be handed down by Jenner. At the beginning of the century we ...
— Fragments of Two Centuries - Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King • Alfred Kingston |
