“In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.”Sir Francis Darwin (botanist, son of Charles Darwin) In a February 1, 2018 article in The New England Journal of Medicine, Arthur W. Boylston, M.D.[1], debunks the myth of the milkmaids and their impact on the development of the smallpox vaccine—the world’s first vaccine. For more than two centuries, folklore told Edward Jenner was inspired to create the vaccine which eventually eradicated…

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