Supplanted By Vaccination
In 1796, the British scientist Edward Jenner published the results of his experiments and thus introduced the far superior and safer method of inoculation with the cowpox virus, a non-fatal virus that also induced immunity to smallpox. Jenner was not the first person to inoculate with cowpox, nor was he the first to realize that infection with cowpox gave immunity to smallpox. His efforts led to smallpox inoculation falling into disuse and eventually being banned in England in 1840.
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“If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)