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 .p001 Introduction
 .p005 '''Ch01 . The Power of the Invisible'''
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 .p011 '''Ch02 . Circassian Beauties and Pioneering Women'''
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  .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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcification | calcification ]] in coronary arteries of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcification | angina patients ]]
 .p028 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Quebec_(1775) | 1775 siege of Quebec ]] failed when half of the colonial force was infected
 .p029 '''Ch04 Why Not Try the Experiment?'''
 .p030 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpox | Cowpox ]] protective against smallpox, dismissed by most doctors, tested by Jenner
 .p031 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paravaccinia_virus | pseudocowpox ]] common, pustules different than cowpox
 .p031 True cowpox-infected milkmaid Sarah Nelmes source of pustule, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Gloucester | Gloster cow ]] Blossom
 .p032 Jenner used "virus" meaning poison or contagion
 .p033 Gardener's son [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Phipps | James Phipps ]] first innoculated 1796 May 14
  . mild symptoms for 9 days. Very small reaction to variolation, similar to those already exposed and immune
 .p034 farmer [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Jesty | Benjamin Jesty ]] did the same experiment in 1774, scorned, vindicated in 1805
 .p037 '''Ch05 The Fourth Achievement'''
 .p038 Jenner publishes [[ https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/contagion/catalog/36-990065830920203941 | An Inquiry into the Causes and Effect of the Variolae Vaccinae ... ]] 1798
 .p039 James Pearson, hysician at St. George's Hospital
 .p043 unlike variolation, cowpox vaccination was not infectious to others
 .p044 Parliament awards Jenner ₤10,000 as sole discoverer of vaccination
 .p047 '''Ch06 The Foundling Voyages'''
 .p047 1808 National Vaccine Institute, ₤20,000 awarded to Jenner
 .p049 Napoleon ordered 100K francs spent to promote vaccination
 .p049 1815 (year of Waterloo battle), French Academy's poetry competition was "Edward Jenner and Vaccination"
 .p049 1805 Napoleon releases two imprisoned British scientists at Jenner's request
 .p050 vaccination spreads to Latin America, then the Phillipines
 .p053 1800 letter to Thomas Jefferson, Monticello vaccinated by August 1801, Virginia, DC, and Philadelphia by year's end
 .p053 1806 lauditory letter from President Jefferson to Jenner
 .p055 '''Ch07 The Teeming Humanity of Nations'''
 .p057 Vaccination did not reach Tibet until the 1940s
 .p058 Japanese emperor/Mikado and wife vaccinated in 1875, mandatory nationwide in 1885
 .p059 immunity wanes; today boosters at 3 to 10 year intervals
 .p059 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_Act | Vaccination Act 1840 ]]
 .p065 '''Ch08 A Great and Loud Commotion'''
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 .p071 '''Ch09 Completing the Picture'''
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 .p077 '''Ch10 Germ Theory and the Birth of Immunology'''
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 .p089 '''Ch11 Victorious Weapons against Illness and Death'''
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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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 .p123 '''Ch14 A Great Step Forward'''
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 .p139 '''Ch15 Great Themes and Dirty Little Secrets'''
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 .p143 '''Ch16 The War on Influenza'''
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 .p151 '''Ch17 Forged in the Crucible of War'''
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 .p139 '''Ch18 Smallpox in a Land of Ancient Wisdom'''
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 .p167 '''Ch19 The Final Defeat of Smallpox'''
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 .p173 '''Ch20 Invisible Weapons of War'''
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 .p179 '''Ch21 Benefits, Risks, and Fears'''
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 .p191 '''Ch22 Inspiration in the Global Village'''
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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

  • p028 1775 siege of Quebec failed when half of the colonial force was infected

  • p029 Ch04 Why Not Try the Experiment?

  • p030 Cowpox protective against smallpox, dismissed by most doctors, tested by Jenner

  • p031 pseudocowpox common, pustules different than cowpox

  • p031 True cowpox-infected milkmaid Sarah Nelmes source of pustule, Gloster cow Blossom

  • p032 Jenner used "virus" meaning poison or contagion
  • p033 Gardener's son James Phipps first innoculated 1796 May 14

    • mild symptoms for 9 days. Very small reaction to variolation, similar to those already exposed and immune
  • p034 farmer Benjamin Jesty did the same experiment in 1774, scorned, vindicated in 1805

  • p037 Ch05 The Fourth Achievement

  • p038 Jenner publishes An Inquiry into the Causes and Effect of the Variolae Vaccinae ... 1798

  • p039 James Pearson, hysician at St. George's Hospital
  • p043 unlike variolation, cowpox vaccination was not infectious to others
  • p044 Parliament awards Jenner ₤10,000 as sole discoverer of vaccination
  • p047 Ch06 The Foundling Voyages

  • p047 1808 National Vaccine Institute, ₤20,000 awarded to Jenner
  • p049 Napoleon ordered 100K francs spent to promote vaccination
  • p049 1815 (year of Waterloo battle), French Academy's poetry competition was "Edward Jenner and Vaccination"
  • p049 1805 Napoleon releases two imprisoned British scientists at Jenner's request
  • p050 vaccination spreads to Latin America, then the Phillipines
  • p053 1800 letter to Thomas Jefferson, Monticello vaccinated by August 1801, Virginia, DC, and Philadelphia by year's end
  • p053 1806 lauditory letter from President Jefferson to Jenner
  • p055 Ch07 The Teeming Humanity of Nations

  • p057 Vaccination did not reach Tibet until the 1940s
  • p058 Japanese emperor/Mikado and wife vaccinated in 1875, mandatory nationwide in 1885
  • p059 immunity wanes; today boosters at 3 to 10 year intervals
  • p059 Vaccination Act 1840

  • p065 Ch08 A Great and Loud Commotion

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  • p071 Ch09 Completing the Picture

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  • p077 Ch10 Germ Theory and the Birth of Immunology

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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

  • p104

  • p106

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  • p107

  • p109 Ch13 Yearning to Breath Free

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  • p117

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  • p123 Ch14 A Great Step Forward

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  • p138

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  • p139 Ch15 Great Themes and Dirty Little Secrets

  • p140

  • p141

  • p142

  • p143 Ch16 The War on Influenza

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  • p146

  • p146

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  • p149

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  • p151 Ch17 Forged in the Crucible of War

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  • p139 Ch18 Smallpox in a Land of Ancient Wisdom

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  • p162

  • p162

  • p163

  • p164

  • p166

  • p166

  • p167 Ch19 The Final Defeat of Smallpox

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  • p169

  • p172

  • p173 Ch20 Invisible Weapons of War

  • p176

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  • p177

  • p177

  • p178

  • p179 Ch21 Benefits, Risks, and Fears

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  • p186

  • p186

  • p187

  • p187

  • p188

  • p188

  • p189

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  • p191 Ch22 Inspiration in the Global Village

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  • p196

  • p196

  • p196

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  • p198

  • p199 Ch23 A Team of Many Colors

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  • p203

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  • p215 Ch24 The Milkmaid and the Cuckoo

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