Actually smallpox inoculation had been done for more than 3000 years before Jenner in India and other places. It involved using pustules from a recovering smallpox victim to induce what was hoped to be a mild case of smallpox and immunity. However sometimes inoculation caused a full blown case of smallpox with all the scarring and occasionally death. But people were familiar with it and felt they understood its benefits and risks.
Jenner introduced vaccination involving pustules from cows (in Latin vacca) with active cowpox. People were neither familiar or comfortable with this new method. Perhaps it might not produce immunity as effectively or long lasting as successful inoculation did. Might it produce unexpected side effects? Nobody (including Jenner) knew for certain and many rumors about vaccination began circulating.
A synonym for vaccination is inoculation.
Inoculation
Vaccination.
It is a vaccination, or inoculation.
Yes. mass inoculation saves far more lives than the vaccination sickens. Anyone fatally sickened by the inoculation almost certainly could not have survived an pandemic of the disease for which they were inoculated.
1796, in England
Inoculation is the word you seek.
the smallpox vaccine.
The word 'vaccination' is a noun, a word for inoculation with vaccine; a word for a thing.The verb form is to vaccinate.
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner did not discover germs, he developed vaccination for smallpox (using cowpox pustules) which was much safer than the inoculation for smallpox (using smallpox pustules) then in use. However he had no idea what actually caused smallpox, only that it was something invisible in the pus from the pustules.
yes it did work.