In article <M_Doherty-1309950916060001 at db48.niaid.nih.gov> M. Doherty,
M_Doherty at NIH.gov writes:
> The earliest reports of variolation that I have read of were in the
>early centuries of this millenium, but in India, not China. Variolation
>had been imported into Europe in the century prior to Jesty/Jenner, and
as
>it was the subject of a vigorous debate in England, it is fair to assume
>that it may have affected the thinking of either or both.
Even closer to jolly old England was the Turkish ambassadors wife who
tried to impart on the UK the concept the turks had used for centuries of
drying and snorting (mucosal vaccination) dried lesions.