#inoculation

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This infographic illustrates seven crucial vaccines, biological preparations that train the immune system to recognize and fight harmful pathogens, preventing disease without causing illness. Throughout history, they have saved millions of lives, reduced child mortality, and helped control or eradicate deadly diseases. Some of the most crucial vaccines in history include: The smallpox vaccine...

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INOCULATION-HYPNOTIC REGRESSION

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Pasteur and his associates soon developed vaccines for anthrax and rabies. In the 1890s, vaccines for typhoid, plague, and cholera appeared, with one for whooping cough close behind.³⁸

38. Although Jenner's discovery was long without equal, its was not completely isolated. Experiments with measles inoculation were tried from the late eighteenth century.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

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AW HELL YEAH THAT'S ONE OF MY TOP METAL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME!!!

Have you listen to Zenith Passage? I believe it's the members of the Faceless minus the singer after he went off the deep end, so their stuff sounds just like Planetary Duality.

Do you mind if I ask for your Spotify? I'd love to dive your playlists! We seem to have similar tastes!

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did we just become best friends 😂

no i haven’t?? i’ll put that on now 🤩

oh yes of course!

oh hell yea i’ll listen to them now thank you 🤩

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For every one disorder that doctors cure with medication (it does happen occasionally, I'm told), there are ten others they provoke in healthy patients by inoculating them with a pathogenic agent a thousand times more virulent than all the germs you can name: the idea that one is ill.

from In Search of Lost Time, Book 3: The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust

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Caroline Caddy

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Inoculation room in the Pasteur Institute, Paris

French vintage postcard

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As a former historical interpreter who portrayed a doctor's wife, the story of Onesimus was one of my favorites to share.

Inoculation was common practice in Africa long before westerners stopped believing in "humors".

was talking to my mom about how white people ignore the contributions of poc to academia and I found myself saying the words "I bet those idiots think Louis Pasteur was the first to discover germ theory"

which admittedly sounded pretentious as fuck but I'm just so angry that so few people know about the academic advancements during the golden age of Islam.

Islamic doctors were washing their hands and equipment when Europeans were still shoving dirty ass hands into bullet wounds. ancient Indians were describing tiny organisms worsening illness that could travel from person to person before Greece and Rome even started theorizing that some illnesses could be transmitted

also, not related to germ theory, but during the golden age of Islam, they developed an early version of surgery on the cornea. as in the fucking eye. and they were successful

and what have white people contributed exactly?

please go research the golden age of Islamic academia. so many of us wouldn't be alive today if not for their discoveries

people ask sometimes how I can be proud to be Muslim. this is just one of many reasons

some sources to get you started:

but keep in mind, it wasn't just science and medicine! we contributed to literature and philosophy and mathematics and political theory and more!

maybe show us some damn respect

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UNDENIABLE TRUTH

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INCOLUATION-I AM WHERE THE FOREGODS MEET

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Vaccinations: Staying Healthy and Safe

As I reflect on the importance of vaccines in our daily lives, I’m reminded of their critical role in maintaining our health and preventing the spread of infectious diseases. Vaccines have revolutionized modern medicine by providing immunity against serious diseases, thereby safeguarding not just individual health but also contributing to public health. The science behind vaccines is…

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Plus no needles (for those of us who don’t handle them well)!

“Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised. Their flu vaccine will also likely be delivered in the form of a spray, as many people have an aversion to needles. “Respiratory infections move through the nose, so a spray might be an easier delivery system,” Hai said. Additionally, the researchers say there is little chance of a virus mutating to avoid this vaccination strategy. “Viruses may mutate in regions not targeted by traditional vaccines. However, we are targeting their whole genome with thousands of small RNAs. They cannot escape this,” Hai said. Ultimately, the researchers believe they can ‘cut and paste’ this strategy to make a one-and-done vaccine for any number of viruses. “There are several well-known human pathogens; dengue, SARS, COVID. They all have similar viral functions,” Ding said. “This should be applicable to these viruses in an easy transfer of knowledge.””

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Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains

This is HUGE. This will fundamentally change how we get inoculated.

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Zulu Inoculation against the Poison of Snakes

“...every year, about October (c. 1906), Zulu men, women, and children have a small piece of skin cut from the back of the left hand, and the poison of a snake, mixed with spittle, is rubbed into the wound. No snake will ever approach a man who has thus been inoculated; and what is even more curious, if the shadow of an inoculated man should touch the shadow of a man who has not been inoculated, the latter will fall down as if he had been shot, overcome by the poison transmitted through the shadow: so exceedingly virulent is the virus."

—J. G. Frazer, Spirits of the Corn & of the Wild, part 2 (The Golden Bough, vol. VIII, 1912, p. 160)

A Zulu warrior, c. 1917.

(Source: C. H. Patton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)