> In Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont, though, they frequently burned the dead person’s heart, sometimes inhaling the smoke as a cure. That sounds like an

> In Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont, though, they frequently burned the dead person’s heart, sometimes inhaling the smoke as a cure. That sounds like an attempt at vaccination, but grounded in woo. Some of the heart-burning described predates the invention of the first vaccination in 1796 (although inoculation was known to the West by the early 1700s). How did wrong methods come so close to a real preventative protocol?