Inoculation with smallpox ( variolation ) was known to result in far less scarring, and greatly reduced mortality, in comparison with the naturally acquired disease.
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Similarly in Japan, Chinese merchant Li Jen-Shan proposed the method of traditional Chinese intranasal variolation after a severe smallpox outbreak in Nagasaki in 1744.
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In August 1721, seven prisoners at Newgate Prison awaiting execution were offered the chance to undergo variolation instead of execution : they all survived and were released.
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By the end of the eighteenth century, variolation had gained widespread global respect and was thought to be one of the greatest medical successes of its time.
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It was the Suttons who introduced the idea of mass variolation of an area when an epidemic broke out as means of protection to the inhabitants in that location.
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She helped to popularise the practice of variolation ( an early type of immunisation ), which had been witnessed by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Charles Maitland in Constantinople.
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In general, the disadvantages of variolation are the same as those of vaccination, but added to them is the general agreement that variolation was always more dangerous than vaccination.
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In general, the disadvantages of variolation are the same as those of vaccination, but added to them is the general agreement that variolation was always more dangerous than vaccination.
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Jenner did this by inoculating James Phipps with cowpox, a virus similar to smallpox, to create immunity, unlike variolation, which used smallpox to create an immunity to itself.
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Jenner did this by inoculating James Phipps with cowpox, a similar virus to smallpox, to create immunity, unlike variolation, which used smallpox to create an immunity to itself.
