Download or read book The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease written by Burroughs Wellcome and Company and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The practice of inoculation for the prevention of disease is one of considerable antiquity. The period of its discovery can only be conjectured, but there is little doubt that even in remote times it mush have been recognised by man, that certain diseases occur once only durng the life of an individual, or that after recovery he is generally immune against further attacks of the same disease." -- Chapter 1, Page 10.