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Oh man, if Edward Jenner, the father of vaccinology, was alive today, he would get crucified over his discovery of the smallpox vaccine. "What? Did you just sc
by sonicggg 5y ago
Oh man, if Edward Jenner, the father of vaccinology, was alive today, he would get crucified over his discovery of the smallpox vaccine.
"What? Did you just scrape some cow's tits and inject fluid into a boy?
No control? Where the ethics approval?"
And that's probably in the Top 10 of largest advancements in medicine of all time. Luckily he did it all before the existence of armchair keyboard warriors.
- haltingproblem 5y agoEdward Jenner was hardly the father of Vaccinology. This method was long known in Indian sources. The best source concerning the Indian method of treatment of smallpox is a report by Dr. John Z. Holwell in 1767 for the College of Physicians in London. This report is an excellent source for understanding the mind of the Ayurvedic doctors of the eighteenth century. [1] [1] https://swarajyamag.com/books/smallpox https://swarajyamag.com/books/smallpox
- Apocryphon 5y agoIt sounds like he wasn't even the first among his contemporaries. But it is known for certain that in the years following 1770, at least six people in England and Germany (Sevel, Jensen, Jesty 1774, Rendall, Plett 1791) tested successfully the possibility of using the cowpox vaccine as an immunization for smallpox in humans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine#Early_vaccination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine#Early_vaccina... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2279376/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2279376/
- buck4roo 5y agoEvidence of variolation goes back to the 15th century https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation#China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation#China
- bserge 5y agoProbably not, since most people against it would be dead or never born.