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)
To: Pharmboy
it was called “variolation.”
Collecting scabs and puss to infect the healthy. I'm not exactly sure why it worked the way it did but it brought the fatality rate down to 1 or 2% vs the usual 30% or so.
7 posted on
08/19/2011 12:20:10 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
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