Word: jenner
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...Edward Jenner had found, before 1800, an empirical method of protecting man against one dread disease now known to be caused by a virus: infection with cowpox ("vaccinia," hence the general term vaccination) would ward off later infection with the deadly and disfiguring smallpox (so called to distinguish it from syphilis, "the great pox"). Louis Pasteur achieved a similar triumph of empiricism. Unable to isolate the microbe of rabies, he simply assumed that it was too small to be seen and developed the Pasteur treatment for victims of bites by rabid animals...
...government in all branches . . . we will clean out corruption and conflicts of interest and improve Government service." This is the sort of thing for which Harry Truman very properly reprimanded Adlai Stevenson in 1952; surely there is no longer any need either to invoke or to exorcise the Jenner-McCarthy spirit...
...army surgeon-Anne Home, who bore him four children and wrote tidy verses to Franz Joseph Haydn's music. While John padded about his museum, Anne kept a salon graced by Johnson and Boswell, Lord Chesterfield and Gibbon. Some of Hunter's students came too: Edward Jenner, who administered the first successful vaccination; Philip Syng Physick, the "Father of American Surgery...
...much as nuclear energy, the population explosion is a product of the Western scientific revolution. In 1798-the year that the Rev. Thomas Malthus "proved" that the earth's capacity to produce food was no match for man's capacity to reproduce -Britain's Dr. Edward Jenner discovered that smallpox could be prevented by vaccination, and thereby opened the road to modern medicine's many techniques of "death control." This knowledge, when transferred from the industrial nations of the West to Latin America, Africa and Asia-where a medical investment of 14? a citizen has been...