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 .p001 Introduction
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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 [[ | calcification ]] in coronary arteries of [[ | angina patients ]]
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 .p029 Ch 4 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 ]]
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The End of Plagues

Multco Central . 362.19691 R476e . 2013

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