Hmmm, interesting - some 80 years earlier. He must have been the first president of an American pharmaceutical company - keeping hold of the "cure" till he could make big bucks on it. :-)


>Mather was preaching on it in 1712:
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>http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi518.htm
>http://www.todayinsci.com/cgi-bin/indexpage.pl?http://www.todayinsci.com/B/Boylston_Zabdiel/Boylston_Zabdiel.htm
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>>Whatever...
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>>http://www.wfu.edu/users/georja1/Discoveryofthesmallpoxvaccination.html
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>>Is there a Gloucestershire in MA?
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>>>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. :-)