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The Cowpock, 1802, by James Gillray. Dr. Edward Jenner used cowpox to vaccinate against smallpox. Gillray shows the result: immediately upon being vaccinated, Jenner's patients sprout cows. In this instance the satirist's disdain was misplaced; Jenner was on to something.

Courtesy of the Harvard Medical Library/Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.

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