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Twitter...you have to go to Twitter to read the entire post. Some joker seemingly suggesting it was OK to mandate inoculation for smallpox but not covid because of the difference in origins...WTF???
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Kaleva
(36,147 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,442 posts)back then, I believe they scraped the skin until it oozed blood and then dripped some infected fluids on it.
I think it may have been the first actual vaccination procedure. Smallpox was endemic in Europe and the colonies. It also was one of the major imported diseases the nearly destroyed the indigenous population.
Kaleva
(36,147 posts)3catwoman3
(23,820 posts)A small glob of green goo got put on your upper are, and then a needle was poked thru the goo several times to get it into you.
Sounds pretty similar to the technique used for Washingtons troops.
It itched like hell, but you werent supposed to scratch it or touch it at all.
LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)Washington was giving actual smallpox to his troops. But the dab approach was known to produce a less severe case of smallpox
Washington's strategy was a bit like the measles, chickenpox, mumps exposure thing that parents encouraged as a way to prevent those illnesses before age 6. I remember the doctor saying, "Try to catch them before age 6".
The word vaccination comes from the latin word for cow, "vacca"
The Spanish word for cow is "vaca"
Although bovis is also latin, it refers to both male and female whereas cow refers to a female bovine.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)But 'vaccines' as we understand the term these days are a form of inoculation that didn't exist in the 1700's.
The crude method used in the 1700's was WAY more dangerous. Something like 10% of recipients died.
Kaleva
(36,147 posts)Phoenix61
(16,954 posts)Silent3
(15,020 posts)But the basic concept of inducing immunity via exposure to something less dangerous than what youre protecting against is the same.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)smallpox if they had cowpox. Edward Jenner innoculated someone with cowpox on 1789, and it worked!
Previously, actual smallpox inoculations were tried, but while some gained immunity, too many died. Cowpox is the first known immunization program. Successful one anyway.
Buzz cook
(2,470 posts)At least that's how I remember it. Girls that worked in dairies got cow pox and not small pox.
Oh and a needle and thread was soaked in pus and pulled through the skin.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)while it was actually dairy farmers who brought it up.
Either way, it worked.
Buzz cook
(2,470 posts)Nice story though.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/02/01/582370199/whats-the-real-story-about-the-milkmaid-and-the-smallpox-vaccine
Farmers were being inoculated with small pox. Those that had previously had cow pox did not react to the small pox inoculation.
LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)I believe they were doing this pus transfer thing in China and word of it finally reached Europe. It wasn't exactly safe.
It was a bit like exposing yourself to measles, chicken pox, etc before there were vaccines. My parents always wanted us to catch them before we were six.
So Washington gave his troops smallpox, but with the pus transfer they did this "little dab". Apparently a low dose of smallpox inoculum resulted in less severe symptoms.
The smallpox vaccine was invented via cowpox inoculum in 1790. The smallpox vaccine gave everyone a case of cowpox which provided immunity to smallpox.
Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)It was nothing like the 20th century smallpox vaccine.
It was risky, painful, and involved a long and arduous recovery.
I believe that it was adopted from a similar practice used by the Turks.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/smallpox-george-washington-revolutionary-war
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Youtube recommendations and reading Gateway Pundit and Epoch Times and watching Newsmax constitutes 'research'.
It's not 'research' when all you're doing is following online breadcrumbs constructed by others to lead you to 'proof' that caters to your pre-existing confirmation bias.
They also seem to totally oblivious to how LITTLE weight one should give to scientific studies that are pre-print, and hence not yet peer-reviewed. They seem to be willing to stake their lives on them at times.
stopdiggin
(11,095 posts)zero credibility - zero science or data - and addressed to zero, Sean Hannity
maybe we shouldn't play this game ..?
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)from covid. Who am I to keep them from their FreeDumb?