Cowpox to the mild form of smallpox and the observation that dairy farmers were immune from smallpox inspired the first smallpox vaccine, created and administered by English physician Edward Jenner. The word “vaccination,” coined by Jenner in 1796, is derived from the Latin root "vaccinus", meaning of or from the cow. Once vaccinated, a patient develops antibodies that make them immune to cowpox, but they also develop immunity to the smallpox virus, or "Variola virus". The cowpox vaccinations and later incarnations proved so successful that in 1980, the World Health Organization announced that smallpox was the first disease to be eradicated
The Successful Pyrate The Successful Pyrate The Successful Pyrate is a play by Charles Johnson, first performed 1712, published 1713, dealing with the life of the pirate Henry Avery. "The Successful Pyrate" is a romanticised dramatisation of two episodes contained in a pamphlet recently published concerning the career of the pirate Henry Avery: his capture of the Mogul Aurengzeb's ship "Gang-i-sawai", allegedly carrying the Mogul's granddaughter; and a plot against him by his lieutenant De Sale and other pirates. In the play, Avery goes under the name Arviragus, and has made himself a King in Madagascar. He captures the Indian princess Zaida and