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Bodies and Structures 2.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History

However, thanks to the vigorous virtue of our peaceful government, the technique of cowpox vaccination arrived on our shores in the year 1849. It was originally invented from cowpox by an enlightened doctor in the West.

然(しかる)に国家(こくか)昇平の盛徳(せいとく)によりて去(さる)嘉永(かえい)二己酉年(とりのとし)種牛痘(うへほうそう)の法(ほう)舶来(はくらい)す、起源(そのはしめ)西洋(おらんだ)の明医(めいい)牛痘(ぎうとう)より発明(はつめい)せり。

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