{"exhibit":{"title":"Vaccination: finding the 'perfect disease'","description":"
This exhibition uncovers the story of the College\u2019s role in vaccination since its discovery in 1796. When Edward Jenner discovered the world\u2019s first vaccine, for smallpox in 1796, he referred to it as the \u2018perfect disease\u2019. The College\u2019s role in the story begins soon after. In 1799, the first successful vaccination in Scotland was performed by a member of the College, William Nimmo, here in the city of Glasgow. In 1801 the College opened one of the first vaccine centres in the UK, vaccinating many thousands of local people throughout the 19th<\/sup> century. The College was the only professional medical body to deliver a public vaccination programme.<\/p>\r\n The exhibition uses the College\u2019s collections to tell this story. Our collections also connect it to other more recent vaccination programmes, for example malaria, tuberculosis and Covid-19.<\/p>","credits":"","featured":0,"public":1,"theme":"","theme_options":null,"slug":"vaccination-2022","added":"2022-07-20 12:25:10","modified":"2023-10-06 12:58:01","owner_id":6,"use_summary_page":1,"cover_image_file_id":4147,"id":18},"item":{"item_type_id":15,"collection_id":4,"featured":0,"public":1,"added":"2018-10-09 09:11:45","modified":"2022-02-17 10:23:40","owner_id":5,"id":809}}