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Bernardo de La Paz

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1. Edward Jenner invented / promulgated smallpox vaccination by scraping cowpox puss off a milkmaid

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Fri Apr 18, 2025, 10:51 PM

Apr 18

That Jenner?

On 14 May 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, the eight-year-old son of Jenner's gardener. He scraped pus from cowpox blisters on the hands of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom[35] (whose hide now hangs on the wall of the St. George's Medical School library, now in Tooting, London). Phipps was the 17th case described in Jenner's first paper on vaccination.[36] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner

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Edward Jenner invented / promulgated smallpox vaccination by scraping cowpox puss off a milkmaid Bernardo de La Paz Apr 18 #1

Uh, no, we're in the kardasianj jenner Age UTUSN Apr 18 #2

:) Bernardo de La Paz Apr 19 #3

Well, old friend, am severely low tech so don't know what colon/parentheses signifies, UTUSN Apr 19 #4

It's a "smiley", the most elemental, the most primitive emoticon, precursor to emoji. Bernardo de La Paz Apr 19 #6

Sometimes a joke is just a joke UTUSN Apr 19 #5

And sometimes when my leg is pulled, I hand it to the puller. Judo comedic technique. ;) Bernardo de La Paz Apr 19 #7