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
Kendall Jenner Kendall Jenner Kendall Nicole Jenner (born November 3, 1995) is an American model and television personality. Originally appearing in the E! reality television show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians", Jenner is now also a model in a movement dubbed "the Instagirl era" by "Vogue" magazine, or "Social Media Modeling" by "Harper's Bazaar", where models are chosen for their online presence and social media following. After working in commercial print ad campaigns and photoshoots, Jenner had breakout seasons in 2014 and 2015, walking the runways for high fashion designers during the New York, Milan, and Paris Fashion Weeks. Jenner has done