The world once ran away in fear of Smallpox. But I am a physician from Bengal, who found a way to protect people long before modern vaccines. You think vaccination started in 1796? No. Centuries before that, India practiced a method now called Variolation. The science was simple: Expose the body to a very small, controlled amount of the disease — so the immune system learns how to fight it. I collected dried material from smallpox sores, preserved it carefully, and during spring, introduced a ti