An excerpt from First Patients: The incredible true stories of pioneer patients. Unfazed by the village doctors’ refusals, the parish deacon forged ahead. Dr. Andrew Bell–preacher, educator, and doctor, possessed the temper and energy of a combustion engine. Nothing would stop him from carrying out his plan to vaccinate the three hundred inhabitants of the
Farmer Jesty’s bold experiment originally appeared in KevinMD.com.