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The End of Plagues

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  • 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



  • 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


  • 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
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  • p065 Ch08 A Great and Loud Commotion

  • p065 glycerol and phenol added to vaccines eliminated risk of bacterial infection from vaccines
  • p066 Smallpox 1/5 chance of death; 1896 vaccines 1/14,000 chance of death lead to antivaccination resentment
  • p069 Routine vaccination ended 1971 in Britain


  • p071 Ch09 Completing the Picture

  • Jenner promotes vaccination for the rest of his life, but uncomfortable in London
  • p074 mild stroke age 70, another age 73. died 1823 January 26



  • p089 Ch11 Victorious Weapons against Illness and Death

  • p090 Jenner statue removed from Britannia's Victory Square
    • 1861 Punch Magazine:
      • England's ingratitude still blots

      • The escutcheon of the brave and free;

      • I saved you many million spots

      • And now you grudge one spot for me.

  • p090 Moved to Kensington. Author Rhodes says "this is a better place for a man raised in the tranquil Vale of Severn and who was never at home in London.
  • p091 Arm-to-arm vaccination no longer used in Europe by 1900, vaccine production in calves instead
  • p091 Vaccines against cholera, typhoid, and plague before 1900
  • p091 biochemistry term in 1903
  • p091 James Sumner isolates, purifies, and crystallizes urease enzyme

  • p092 John Keats trained as a surgeon and apothecary

  • p092 Keats lost his mother and brother Tom to tuberculosis, led to 1819 Ode to a Nightingale

  • p093 Keats died of tuberculosis February 1821
  • p094 Robert Koch identified the M. tuberculosis bacteria in 1882

  • 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

  • p098 ~1/3 of world population has TB, latent for many
  • p098 a better vaccine than BG sorely needed


  • p101 Ch12 First Light on the Mystery of Infantile Paralysis

  • p102 Karl Landsteiner identified cause of polio

  • p102 severe polio rare in poor hygiene communities, babies exposed while protected by antibodies in mother's milk
  • p103 Simon Flexner and Albert Sabin at Rockefeller Institute in NYC

  • p104 Franklin Roosevelt contracted polio at a 1921 Boy Scout jamboree, kept secret for life
  • p104 Many new polios" at Warm Springs Resort in Georgia, Roosevelt arranges separation for convalescents

  • p106 radios (battery or wallplug) everywhere in 1938 US, March of Dimes

  • p106 Brodie Park 1935 vaccine against polio, inactivation incomplete, some vaccine-related infections

  • p107 gastrointestinal virus in humans, only 1% of infections enter the nervous system


  • p109 Ch13 Yearning to Breath Free

  • p112 virologist Thomas Rivers led Rockefeller Institute

  • p114 Dorothy Horstmann at Yale orally"" infected monkeys with polio

  • p114 Jonas Salk discovered three serotypes of polio using 17000 monkeys

  • p115 Isabel Morgan developed a formalin-inactivated-virus vaccine

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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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  • p199 Ch23 A Team of Many Colors

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