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To: Pharmboy

Seems like I read that Washington employed a crude form of smallpox vaccination at Valley Forge.


2 posted on 08/19/2011 12:10:56 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin)
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To: cripplecreek

Indeed...it was called “variolation.” Jenner’s cowpox technique did not gain widespread use for another 20 or so years.


4 posted on 08/19/2011 12:14:16 PM PDT by Pharmboy (What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
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