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To: Pure Country

On the other hand, the smallpox vaccine was invented when Thos. Salk discovered that diary maids never got smallpox. “Fresh faced, like a dairy maid. No scars.”

Cowpox confers immunity to smallpox.

How many lives has that saved?


22 posted on 04/29/2011 9:18:45 AM PDT by patton (I am sure that I have done dumber thigns in my life, but at the moment, I am unable to recall them.)
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To: patton

That was Edward Jenner. Salk invented the Polio Vaccine...


41 posted on 04/29/2011 10:56:09 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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