who invented the vaccine for smallpox
Smallpox vaccine, the first successful vaccine to be developed, was introduced by Edward Jenner in 1798. He followed up his observation that milkmaids who had previously caught cowpox did not later catch smallpox by showing that inoculated cowpox protected against inoculated smallpox.nother early account was Dr John Fewster 's 1765 paper on Cowpox and its ability to prevent smallpox read to the London Medical Society. He reported that variolation induced no reaction in persons who had had cowpox. Fewster was a contemporary and friend of Jenner.