Edward Jenner quotes
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“The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases”
-- Edward JennerSource : An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox
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“While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.”
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“I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.”
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“I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.”
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
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“Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.”
Source : Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”
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“But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.”
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