Whatever...
http://www.wfu.edu/users/georja1/Discoveryofthesmallpoxvaccination.htmlIs there a Gloucestershire in MA?
>Actually, I think it was in Boston, MA...
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>>>... By the way, wasn't it a slave that actually had the idea of giving a sample of an infection to people to build up their immunity? I think his owner got the credit for it though.
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>>Wasn't that something to do with an English milk maid who had cow-pox on her arms and stuff? She didn't suffer from smallpox or something. They gave a sample of her pox to some kid and he lived through smallpox. Bit vague the memory but essentially along those lines. :-)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
