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The museums, the machines and the men and women who worked it out: laboratories kept as they were, beam engines under steam, the tunnel, the barrier, the roofs, and the plaques on the houses where the ideas came.
The inventor of vaccination in bronze in the Italian Gardens, exiled here from Trafalgar Square because a doctor did not belong among the generals.
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William Calder Marshall's seated Jenner was unveiled in Trafalgar Square by Prince Albert in 1858, the country doctor from Gloucestershire who in 1796 scratched cowpox into a boy's arm and gave the world its first vaccine; four years later, after complaints in Parliament and the papers that a physician had no place beside Nelson and the generals, it was moved to a quiet corner of Kensington Gardens by the fountains, where it has sat since, the only statue of a scientist among the park's kings and queens.
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