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...November--Sen. Jenner's Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security announces plans to investigate Communists in the nation's colleges and universities...
Britain: Lax. Why should a doctor-as well as six other persons-die of smallpox in the country that for more than 160 years has known the techniques of vaccination devised by Englishman Edward Jenner? The answer is that Britain has let down its legal guard against smallpox. In 1948 the country's compulsory vaccination law, attacked as infringing an Englishman's freedom and as being unnecessary as well, was repealed. But Britain's immunity had depended mainly on the duration of a steamship passage from India (heart of the world's greatest smallpox reservoir...
...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...