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Vaccination against smallpox is almost 200 years old, yet it is still far from being an invariably safe procedure. Although production methods have become more sanitary, the vaccine itself has changed little since Edward Jenner scraped it from sores on the hand of a cowpox-infected dairymaid. It causes severe and even fatal reactions in a small but appreciable number of people, with an average of seven deaths reported annually in the U.S. since 1950. Also, it probably leaves a greater number of victims with permanent mental damage from spread of the cowpox virus to the brain...
...French say, green-which means, as the Americans say, blue. The plot, for example, involves a Rabelaisian family feud in which the antagonists fight to a finesse and take each other's wives. Best plonk: when a farmer finds a stranger dossing down with his dairymaid, he bawls indignantly, "Be off with you! I can handle the servants without outside help...
...Flagstad, a robust 53 with a dairymaid's complexion, her return to Norway was simply a question of going home to her family, which was in danger. "I never thought of it any other way," she says...
...Reinhardt's The Miracle), now wife of the British Ambassador to Algiers, found North African markets poor, promptly borrowed a cow and set it to graze on the grounds of the British Embassy, also populated by two partridges, a gazelle. Lady Diana further astonished Algiers by practicing the dairymaid chore she had learned on her farm in Bognor, England-she milked...
Louis XV died of smallpox after "a Bacchanalian party at which a dairymaid was bathed, combed and perfumed, and placed in his bed. . . ." Next morning he fell ill. The incident, says Dr. Kemble, "was not the source of Louis' infection, for a period of some twelve days elapses between the date of contact with smallpox and the appearance of the first signs of illness...