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The first Korean record on the smallpox can be found in the Hyangyak-Kukupbang compiled during the period of late Koryo dynasty. The record told on the cause, symptom, preventive and curative method of the disease but it did not touch upon its infectivity. Jeong Yak-Yong and Lee Jong-In of late 18th and early 19th centuries recognized first that the disease is infectious and it can be prevented by the vaccination method. But the vaccination against smallpox had not been carried out in public until 1880. From 1879 Chi Suk-Young began to try it privately to his relatives and neighbors. For sometime the smallpox vaccination was considered foreign and heretical by many people and some officers, so the trial of Chi and his colleagues had to go through an ordeal until the Reform of 1894. In 1895 the government first proclaimed an Ordinance on the Smallpox Vaccination in October and an Ordinance on the Training Center for Smallpox Vaccination in November. And two years later, in 1897 to bring up the vaccination doctors the government established the Training Center for Smallpox Vaccination, which was in 1899 integrated into the Medical school, the first modern and westernized medical school run by Korean government. Many of the vaccination doctors were posted at the newly established Office of Smallpox Vaccination by the government to perform their activities there until 1907.
朝鲜关于天花的最早记录可在高丽王朝后期编纂的《乡药救急方》中找到。该记录讲述了这种疾病的病因、症状、预防和治疗方法，但未提及传染性。18世纪末和19世纪初的丁若镛和李钟仁首先认识到这种疾病具有传染性，并且可以通过接种疫苗的方法预防。但直到1880年天花疫苗接种才开始公开进行。1879年起，池锡永开始私下对亲戚和邻居进行尝试。有一段时间，天花疫苗接种被许多人和一些官员视为外来的和异端的，所以池锡永和他的同事们的尝试在1894年改革之前不得不经历一番磨难。1895年，政府于10月首次颁布了《天花疫苗接种条例》，11月颁布了《天花疫苗接种培训中心条例》。两年后的1897年，为培养疫苗接种医生，政府设立了天花疫苗接种培训中心，该中心于1899年并入韩国政府开办的第一所现代西式医学院——医科大学。许多疫苗接种医生被派往政府新设立的天花疫苗接种办公室，在那里开展工作直至1907年。
