We all know how a vaccine eradicated smallpox. It was one of the great success stories of modern medicine.
This does make a good bedtime story.
But if you want to get red pilled on this one. Fasten your seat belt and listen on.

For researching this piece, which appeared in The Earth Hearing, the author consulted the bulk of the books, government reports, and committee hearings on smallpox that were published roughly between 1790 and 1910 in English. The more prominent ones include the following:

Biggs, J. T. (1912). Leicester : Sanitation versus vaccination : Its vital statistics compared with those of other towns, the army, navy, Japan, and England and Wales. England: The National Anti-Vaccination League, [1912].

Birch, J. (1817). An appeal to the public on the hazards and peril of vaccination.

Brown, T. (1809). An Inquiry into the Antivariolous Power of Vaccination.

Edgar, M. & Crookshank, M.B. (1889). History and Pathology of Vaccination: a critical inquiry.

Haygarth, J. (1793). A Sketch of the Plan to Exterminate the Casual Small-pox from Great Britain.

Hutton, A. W. (1896). The vaccination question. The Hospital, 20(503), 115-115.

Maclean, C. (1810). On the state of vaccination in 1810. London.

Moseley, B. (1807) An Oliver for a Rowland or A Cow Pox Epistle, 9th ed.

Peebles, J. M. (1910). Compulsory vaccination. Life (1883-1936), 55(1437), 901.

Rowley, W. (1806). Cow-pox inoculation no security against small-pox infection, 3rd ed.

White, W. (1885). The story of a great delusion. London. 

Winterburn, G. W. (1886). The Value of Vaccination.

(1897). Final report of the royal commission appointed to inquire into the subject of vaccination.

(1890s) Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth Reports of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Subject of Vaccination with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices.