{"date":"May 14","id":"05-14","intro":["Edward Jenner found that disease in the heel of a horse, transmitted through a cow to the dairy attendants, was an agent in making human beings immune from smallpox. His amazing experiments inaugurated a new epoch."],"minutes":17,"readings":[{"author":"Edward Jenner","end":154,"start":145,"volume":38,"work":"Vaccination Against Smallpox"}],"slug":"may-14","status":"proofread","title":"Jenner’s Amazing Smallpox Cure","url":"/harvard-classics/may-14/","words":3483}