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==Terminology== The word "vaccine" is derived from ''Variolae vaccinae'' (i.e. smallpox of the cow), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox and used in the long title of his ''An enquiry into the causes and effects of Variolae vaccinae, known by the name of cow pox''.<ref name=Baxby1999>{{cite journal | vauthors = Baxby D | title = Edward Jenner's Inquiry; a bicentenary analysis | journal = Vaccine | volume = 17 | issue = 4 | pages = 301β307 | date = January 1999 | pmid = 9987167 | doi = 10.1016/S0264-410X(98)00207-2 }}</ref> [[Vaccination]], the term which soon replaced ''cowpox inoculation'' and ''vaccine inoculation'', was first used in print by Jenner's friend, Richard Dunning in 1800.<ref name=Bailey1996>{{cite journal | vauthors = Bailey I | title = Edward Jenner (1749β1823): naturalist, scientist, country doctor, benefactor to mankind | journal = Journal of Medical Biography | volume = 4 | issue = 2 | pages = 63β70 | date = May 1996 | pmid = 11616266 | doi = 10.1177/096777209600400201 | s2cid = 30318738 }}</ref> Initially, the terms ''vaccine''/''vaccination'' referred only to smallpox, but in 1881 Louis Pasteur proposed at the ''7th International Congress of Medicine''<ref>{{cite book | url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001579591 | title=Transactions of the International medical congress, seventh session, held in London, August 2d to 9th, 1881. | year=1881 | publisher=J. W. Kolckmann | access-date=23 May 2022 | archive-date=23 May 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523202648/https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001579591 | url-status=live }}</ref> that to honour Jenner the terms be widened to cover the new protective inoculations being introduced.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Esparza J, Lederman S, Nitsche A, Damaso CR | title = Early smallpox vaccine manufacturing in the United States: Introduction of the "animal vaccine" in 1870, establishment of "vaccine farms", and the beginnings of the vaccine industry | journal = Vaccine | volume = 38 | issue = 30 | pages = 4773β4779 | date = June 2020 | pmid = 32473878 | pmc = 7294234 | doi = 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.05.037 | quote = To honor Jenner, in 1881 Louis Pasteur proposed at the 7th International Congress of Medicine held in London, to generalize the term "vaccination" to refer to all protective immunization procedures against any infectious diseases [19] and since then we talk about vaccines against different diseases. }}</ref> According to some sources the term was first introduced by Jenner's friend Richard Dunning in 1800.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Baxby D | title = Edward Jenner's inquiry after 200 years | journal = BMJ | volume = 318 | issue = 7180 | pages = 390 | date = February 1999 | pmid = 9933209 | pmc = 1114848 | doi = 10.1136/bmj.318.7180.390 | quote = Unjustified credit is sometimes given to Jenner for introducing the terms virus (already long used to indicate a transmissible poison) and vaccination (introduced by his friend Richard Dunning in 1800. }}</ref>
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