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BARBARIC SCENE ACCURATE ["John Adams" miniseries]
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| 3-19-08
| JIM HALL
Posted on 03/19/2008 3:31:09 PM PDT by Pharmboy
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To: Pharmboy; blam
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posted on
03/19/2008 11:03:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
To: Pharmboy
When I was in elementary school in the mid-50s they were always lining us up for some type of vaccination. Polio, measles, smallpox. I recall getting some type of form of variolation for one of the diseases in much the same manner as described in this article. Might have been smallpox. Most of us got a mild form of the "infection", a scab at the "wound" site that we were cautioned to let naturally fall off. "Today, thanks to a worldwide vaccination program, smallpox is gone. The last recorded case was in Somalia in 1977." Just about had malaria whipped too until Raunchel Carson published her anti-humankind screed about 30 years ago.
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posted on
03/20/2008 2:35:08 AM PDT
by
RushLake
(Democrats/MSM have never met a terrorist they didn't like.)
To: The_Reader_David
I thought that Mather and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston were proponents of inoculation; opponents of it, including James Franklin, Ben’s brother, pretty much tried to run the two of them out of town, because they considered inoculation poisoning.
To: RushLake
I received one of those, too. I still have a small round scar on my left upper arm though it has stretched out some over the years.
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posted on
03/20/2008 6:27:00 AM PDT
by
mollynme
(cogito, ergo freepum)
To: C19fan
“When I saw the title I thought it was the scene I have read about of some bureaucratic getting tar and feathered.”
Add me to that list. That scene totally changed my erroneous conception of what it meant to be “tarred and feathered”... I had not realized that it was in fact, a fatal punishment :|
tatt
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posted on
03/20/2008 8:30:31 AM PDT
by
thesearethetimes...
(Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst.)
To: TenthAmendmentChampion
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tatt
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posted on
03/20/2008 8:36:37 AM PDT
by
thesearethetimes...
(Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst.)
To: C19fan
There was a book about small pox in America about three years ago. The author said that the inoculations may have been the most strategic decision Washington made. The Brits had introduced the pox in blankets to Indians and were believed to be condsidering it for the “traitor.”
To: Viking2002
When I was a kid, a friend of mine had chicken pox. His face was covered with red spots. From the neck down he was covered with feathers.
To: EveningStar
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posted on
03/20/2008 11:46:54 AM PDT
by
dhot
To: Misterioso
Sunny and in the sixties...storms passed us by.
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posted on
03/20/2008 4:26:14 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Nothing in the Universe can convince me to vote for Juan McLame!)
To: Hemingway's Ghost
You are correct. Mather was in favor of the earlier practice of innoculation with smallpox.
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posted on
03/20/2008 6:13:18 PM PDT
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: Pharmboy
how many parts are ther to this miniseries?
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posted on
03/20/2008 6:19:46 PM PDT
by
eeevil conservative
(GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH....Archimedes)
To: eeevil conservative
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posted on
03/20/2008 8:20:41 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
To: Pharmboy
This scene in the mini-series was brutal... I assume the "source" of the Pox (person lying in the cart) was on his death bed?
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posted on
03/20/2008 9:52:40 PM PDT
by
Trajan88
(www.bullittclub.com)
To: thesearethetimes...
I googled tar and feathering after watching that scene, and apparently it wasn’t always fatal. Even the guy who go tarred and feathered at the Boston Tea Party - John Malcolm - survived. Hard to believe though. It certainly looked like it would kill someone.
To: thesearethetimes...
"Add me to that list. That scene totally changed my erroneous conception of what it meant to be tarred and feathered... I had not realized that it was in fact, a fatal punishment :|"
Good, perhaps it served as a warning not to become an authoritarian prick. A good many of our current politicians could use the treatment.
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posted on
04/07/2008 2:11:24 PM PDT
by
rednesss
(Fred Thompson - 2008)
To: drcatwoman
Knewa missionary who was tarred in india. He survived but had a long recovery. Just started watching john adams miniseries on hbo. Everyone on freerepublic should make it their june 2014 viewing special so we will be primed for independence day.
To: Deathtomarxists
Defunding HBO would be a great tribute to mankind
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:28:26 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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