Calf lymph
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Calf lymph was the name given[1] to a type of smallpox vaccine used in the 19th century, and which was still manufactured up to the 1970s.
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History
Calf lymph was known as early as 1805 in Italy[1], but it was the Lyon Medical Conference of 1864 which made the technique known to the wider world.[1] In 1898 calf lymph became the standard method of vaccination for smallpox in the United Kingdom, when arm to arm vaccination was eventually banned[1] (due to complications such as the simultaneous transmission of syphilis).
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- Facts about smallpox and vaccination British Medical Association, 1905
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