Although the earliest recorded use of variolation in Europe was in seventeenth century Denmark, it was in Turkey that the influential minds of Europe first witnessed inoculation and eventually recommended its use throughout Europe. The Turks attributed this innovation to the Circassians, “...whose women were reported to be very beautiful and sold for slaves by the poorer sort. It was thought necessary that all their females should have the smallpox in their infancy...Turkmenistan was part of Circassia. The people in that area understood immunity in detail long before Europe heard of it.
It would be 20 years before inoculation was tested in England. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) lived in Turkey with her husband, the ambassador Edward Wortley Montagu. It was there that Lady Montagu first witnessed inoculation, in 1716, and subsequently had her son inoculated. It is thought that her dedication to preventing the disease grew from the fact that her own once beautiful face had been disfigured by smallpox. Two years later, having returned to England, Lady Montagu had her daughter inoculated during a smallpox epidemic, under the scrutiny of the Royal Society’s Physicians. The inoculation was considered successful when the child developed a limited number of lesions and did not contract overwhelming disease.The article's main point is that we credit Jenner because he had connections and reputation and lawyers and press agents, not because he originated the idea. Most of the Greats, the names we remember, stole their ideas from Ungreats. In some cases the Great, or his company, did meaningful work in developing and systematizing the idea. Jenner seems to have done this. The 1998 article is also a useful point of reference, a beacon crossing the light-years from a saner universe. It shows that the medical profession actually UNDERSTOOD IMMUNITY before March 2020. Now all medical research is aimed primarily at DEFEATING immunity, and secondarily at eliminating the entire CONCEPT of immunity from the profession. New "studies" are shocked and surprised when they see these "mysterious" T-cells killing the Branded Virus. We need to get rid of those horrible T-cells! Everyone knows that viruses can only be killed by slaughtering all Deplorables and giving maximum sexual pleasure to psychopaths. In 1998 doctors were fighting AIDS. Now doctors are AIDS.
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