I was at an old HBC sub-post and came across this. He made his own vaccines.
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CLERK-IN-CHARGE:
ISAAC COWIE
Isaac Cowie was a Scotsman who had already worked as a clerk in a lawyer's office, served as a militiaman and attended two sessions of medical courses at Edinburgh University before entering the Hudson's Bay Company as an apprentice clerk at 18 years old.
In just a few short years, by the age of 21, he was promoted to Clerk-in-Charge at this outpost. Here, he kept detailed accounts of daily activities, kepta running tally of goods traded for the Hudson's Bay Company and delegated daily activities to those that worked at the post
Years later he wrote a book of his time in the fur trade called, The Company of Adventurers:
Narrative of Seven Years in the Service of the Hudson's A Bay Company during 18671874 that gives a glimpse into life in the west at a time when the fur trade was giving way to settlement.
One of the most far-reaching contributions Cowie made to the Qu'Appelle area was vaccinating the community against small pox.
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As I had assisted my father and brother in vaccinating hundreds of children at home, I at once asked Mr. Breland to allow me to take the lymph from his grandchild's arm (who was healthy and had been vaccinated in England prior to arrival at Fort Qu'Appelle) ... on bits of window glass, enough vaccine to protect everyone requiring it in the fort, from whom the supply was increased sufficiently to vaccinate all the people about the lakes and the Indians visiting them that fall.