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In the second part, it analyses the reasons\n                    <jats:italic>why<\/jats:italic>\n                    the plague vaccine was criticised. In the third part, it looks at how the author celebrated the plague vaccine in a later section of the collection. In the fourth section, it attempts to answer why the astrologer changed his view on vaccination. 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