Smallpox 1718. In 1721, Cotton Mather and colleagues provoked controversy in Boston by inoculating hundreds. In 1796, Edward Jenner, a doctor in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, rural England, discovered that immunity to smallpox could be produced by inoculating a person with material from a cowpox lesion. Cowpox is a poxvirus in the same family as variola. Jenner called the material used for inoculation vaccine, from the root word "vacca", which is Latin for cow. The procedure was much safer than variolation, and did not involve a risk of smallpox transmission. Vaccination to prevent smallpox was soon practiced all over the world. During the
Boone Jenner Jenner to a three-year entry-level contract. Jenner scored his first and second NHL goals on October 17, 2013 against Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens. Jenner's uncle Billy Carroll is a four-time Stanley Cup winner, winning three times with the New York Islanders and once with the Edmonton Oilers. Jenner's oldest brother Leo played five seasons with the OHL's Plymouth Whalers and played hockey for Acadia University. As well, his cousin Marcus Carroll (Carroll's son) played five OHL seasons for the Owen Sound Attack and 2 seasons with the ECHL Utah Grizzlies. Boone Jenner Boone Jenner (born June 15, 1993)