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 .p001 Introduction
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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 [[ | calcification ]] in coronary arteries of [[ | angina patients ]]
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 .p095 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subculture_(biology) | passaging ]] (pronounced pas''arg''ing) [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis | tuberculosis ]] bacteria 1908 until 119
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 .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
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6 Lübeck BCG contaminated with virulent bacillus grown in the same incubator
 .p098 six-needle [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaf_test
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The End of Plagues

Multco Central . 362.19691 R476e . 2013

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