The Dark History of Vaccines
Hippocratic Oath: First do no harm.
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1721: The Inoculation Craze
The procedure of INOCULATION was brought to the attention of Western science by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in 1721, after observing a “smallpox party” while on vacation in Turkey. Inoculation is the practice of introducing infected pus into the body. The collateral smallpox cases spread by variolated subjects shortly after variolation began to outweigh the benefits of the procedure.
(known as variolation after the introduction of smallpox vaccine to avoid possible confusion)
Jenner called the material used for inoculation vaccine, from the root word vacca, which is Latin for cow
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1800
In 1751, Jenner presented his booklet to the Royal Society who turned it down. Thus scorned by his peers, Jenner published the book himself. If a researcher today failed peer review and then self-published, how would the work be received? — http://www.jennifercraig.net/blog/2014/6/16/smallpox-vaccine-the-origins-of-vaccine-madness-february-26-2010
Vaccination for smallpox was fraudulently inaugurated and dishonestly maintained to the financial and health cost to the public ...