Not to beat the subject into the ground but, originally you stated that “the first patient was inoculated in 1757.” It also seemed you were saying that first patient was Edward Jenner.
But the article we both linked to states he was one of thousands of children inoculated in England that summer. And the practice went back hundreds of years, first introduced in Europe in 1670.
Yes, I scanned the blurb from the Google results and misread it. The paragraph was referring to Jenner’s inoculation.not ‘the first’ one.
I should have known better because I knew that one of Queen Anne’s children (none out of over a dozen survived) had been inoculated... that would have been in the late 17th century.