Cartoon from 1892.
Even then many knew it was poison.
(media.greatawakening.win)
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The OG vaccine was just a pox party where you got intentionally infected by a lesser (cow) pox so that you wouldn't get smallpox. It was substituting exposure to a lesser disease for exposure to a far worse disease.
The theory is sound. It's when you try to game the system with adjuvants and don't fully understand the consequences of each and every lesser disease that things get fucked.
More so once you start genetically engineering some lesser diseases with genes from greater diseases.
Far far more so when you just bypass the disease entirely and create gene therapies to make the human body produce part of the disease directly along with novel carrier molecules and adjuvants.
There's a way to be humble about it and the original exposure to cowpox, after noticing that milkmaids don't get smallpox, is an example of that.