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 . Forward by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sykes_(microbiologist) | Sir Richard Sykes ]]
 .p001 Introduction
 .p005 '''Ch01 . The Power of the Invisible'''
 .p006 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague | Bubonic plague ]] killed 1/3 of European population between 1348 and 1350
 .p006 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London | Great Plague of London ]] 1665-1666
 .p008 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_V | Ramses V ]] died of smallpox in "1157 BC" (wp 1144 BC)
 .p011 '''Ch02 . Circassian Beauties and Pioneering Women'''
 .p012 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox | Variola major ]] mutated from [[ https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/about/history.html | Variola minor ]] between 400 and 1600 years ago
  .p013 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Mary_Wortley_Montagu | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu née Pierrepont ]] smallpox at 26, championed variolation
 .p014 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_beauty | Circassian beauty ]]
 .p014 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation | variolation ]]
 .p017 Scottish surgeon [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Maitland_(physician) | Charles Maitland ]] innoculated Newgate prisoners in 1722, all survived and were pardoned
 .p018 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Mather | Cotton Mather ]] learned of variolation from slave [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onesimus_(Bostonian) | Onesimus ]]
 .p019 Boston doctor Zabdiel Boylston innoculed 242 people during 1721 smallpox outbreak
 .p019 smallpox mortality 10% to 30%
 .p019 variolation morality 17 out of 897, 2%
 .p020 French medical establishment opposed, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire | Voltaire ]] in favor
 .p020 Dr. Robert Sutton improved procedure, son Daniel Sutton inoculated 40,000 with 5 deaths
 .p021 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dimsdale | Thomas Dimsdale ]]
 .p021 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great | Catherine the Great ]] innoculated by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dimsdale | Thomas Dimsdale, ]] rewarded with "Baron of the Russian Empire"
 .p023 '''Ch03 . The Making of Jenner'''
 .p023 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner | Edward Jenner ]]
 .p024 Jenner lodged with surgeon [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hunter_(surgeon) | John Hunter ]]
 .p026 Jenner found foreign seed in birds, evidence for bird migration
 .p026 Jenner observed newly hatched cuckoos push other chicks and eggs out of nest
 .p027 observed narrowing and [[ | calcification ]] in coronary arteries of [[ | angina patients ]]
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 .p029 '''Ch04 Why Not Try the Experiment?'''
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 .p095 bacteriologist [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Calmette | Albert Calmette 1863-1933 ]] and veterinarian [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Gu%C3%A9rin | Camille Guerine 1872-1961 ]]
 .p095 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subculture_(biology) | passaging ]] (pronounced pas''arg''ing) [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis | tuberculosis ]] bacteria 1908 until 1919
 .p095 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCG_vaccine | Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine ]] tested in humans 1921, 500K infants safely vaccinated
 .p095 240 babies vaccinated in Lübeck, all developed acute tuberculosis, 72 died
 .p096 Lübeck BCG contaminated with virulent bacillus grown in the same incubator
 .p098 six-needle [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaf_test | Heaf gun ]]
 .p101 '''Ch12 First Light on the Mystery of Infantile Paralysis'''
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The End of Plagues

Multco Central . 362.19691 R476e . 2013

  • Forward by Sir Richard Sykes

  • p001 Introduction
  • p005 Ch01 . The Power of the Invisible

  • p006 Bubonic plague killed 1/3 of European population between 1348 and 1350

  • p006 Great Plague of London 1665-1666

  • p008 Ramses V died of smallpox in "1157 BC" (wp 1144 BC)

  • p011 Ch02 . Circassian Beauties and Pioneering Women

  • p012 Variola major mutated from Variola minor between 400 and 1600 years ago

  • p014 Circassian beauty

  • p014 variolation

  • p017 Scottish surgeon Charles Maitland innoculated Newgate prisoners in 1722, all survived and were pardoned

  • p018 Cotton Mather learned of variolation from slave Onesimus

  • p019 Boston doctor Zabdiel Boylston innoculed 242 people during 1721 smallpox outbreak
  • p019 smallpox mortality 10% to 30%
  • p019 variolation morality 17 out of 897, 2%
  • p020 French medical establishment opposed, Voltaire in favor

  • p020 Dr. Robert Sutton improved procedure, son Daniel Sutton inoculated 40,000 with 5 deaths
  • p021 Thomas Dimsdale

  • p021 Catherine the Great innoculated by Thomas Dimsdale, rewarded with "Baron of the Russian Empire"

  • p023 Ch03 . The Making of Jenner

  • p023 Edward Jenner

  • p024 Jenner lodged with surgeon John Hunter

  • p026 Jenner found foreign seed in birds, evidence for bird migration
  • p026 Jenner observed newly hatched cuckoos push other chicks and eggs out of nest
  • p027 observed narrowing and calcification in coronary arteries of angina patients

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  • p037 Ch05 The Fourth Achievement

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  • p089 Ch11 Victorious Weapons against Illness and Death

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  • p095 bacteriologist Albert Calmette 1863-1933 and veterinarian Camille Guerine 1872-1961

  • p095 passaging (pronounced pasarging) tuberculosis bacteria 1908 until 1919

  • p095 Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine tested in humans 1921, 500K infants safely vaccinated

  • p095 240 babies vaccinated in Lübeck, all developed acute tuberculosis, 72 died
  • p096 Lübeck BCG contaminated with virulent bacillus grown in the same incubator
  • p098 six-needle Heaf gun

  • p101 Ch12 First Light on the Mystery of Infantile Paralysis

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  • p104

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  • p109 Ch13 Yearning to Breath Free

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