Word of the day: Vaccination

The word was first used by Richard Dunning (a friend of Jenner, cf. smallpox) in 1800 in a treatise called Some observations on vaccination, and the inoculated cow-pox and was certainly common enough to be discussed in the House of Commons 2 years later. The word vaccination itself comes from the Latin vacca (cow). As […]

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