Early vaccine development

[CA Country Girl]

Early vaccine technology was not developed by drug companies or even western medicine, but by mostly older women healers in the Ottoman Empire (what is now turkey), a group of women MDC people might find interesting.  Lady Montagu observed their technique for small pox vaccination in the early 1700's and tried to rally other upper class English women to vaccinate their children as she had.  The letter is the 4th down on this link if you want to read it.  http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/mcbride/ws200/montltrs.htm.  I would be curious if someone knows of an older source.

I decided to repost this here in case anyone was interested.

[Cynthia Mosher]

Very interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing. :)

[hallice]

It is indeed very interesting what has become of medicine since the Enlightenment. I mean, thanks to human curioisity and striving, people have found solutions for many medical disasters. And nowadays, the researchers are devloping new serums and vaccines every couple of months. There are even approaches to solve the HIV pandemia. as i have read recently, the CD antibodies play a major role in the infection process. That is a promising start to continue research. It is nice to be reminded of how it all started, thank you!