[Qiu Xi and vaccination].
Qui-Xi was one of the earliest Chinese who learned cowpox vaccination in the early 19th century. He spent all his life on vaccination career, explained and supplemented the cowpox vaccination by TCM theory, and thus did great contribution to the prevention of smallpox in China. Guangdong, as an early trade window opening to abroad, provided an environment of social thought and economic support to him.
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