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Edward Jenner’s smallpox inoculation experiment was based on an observation by a dairymaid that she could not get smallpox because she had already had cowpox. How did Jenner form his hypothesis from this observation?

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She had thought that smallpox and chicken pox were related but they weren't because smallpox is a lot more deadly
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