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"Perhaps you should tell him, Mr. Phipps", answered Dr. Jenner, looking at James's father. James sat awkwardly on the wooden bench, this time wearing his Sunday shoes, while Dr. Jenner told the story of his vaccination and of his lack of response to the smallpox variolation. Dr. Jenner expects James to show mild symptoms of cowpox, and afterward to be immune from smallpox - a treatment Dr. Jenner calls vaccination. James Phipps is an eight-year-old boy whose father is a gardener on the estate of Dr. Edward Jenner in Gloucestershire, England. [Extracted from the article]

"Phipps, James shall do his weeding tomor-row - and do it well, mind", Dr. Jenner said, with a sideways glance at James. "James, Mr. Phipps, I thank you", said Dr. Jenner. James scrambled behind an ivy-covered wall as Dr. Jenner strode confidently out of the summerhouse, holding a round glass vial with a drop of liquid in the bottom. IT WAS A lovely spring day, and James Phipps's father needed help with the weeding. [Extracted from the article]