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Historical & Scientific Perspectives
on Immunity, Infectious Disease &
Vaccination
Raymond Obomsawin
January, 2011
“
When the tide is receding from the beach
it is easy to have the illusion that one can
empty the ocean by removing
water with a pail
.”
Rene Dubos
in Mirage of Health
V
ACCINATION
’
S
P
OSSIBLE
A
NCIENT
O
RIGINS
A few sources maintain the view
that inoculation or variolation as
a disease preventative originated
in the sorcery of early Egyptian
priest-physicians.
Ancient Egyptian magical potions
& cures included: donkey dung;
fish eyes; Nile river mud; camel’s
hair; & fly wings.
H. Bruno & B. Ziskind; Medicine in the Days of the
Pharaohs; Cambridge, Mass. USA; Harvard University
Press, 2005. & http://www.reformation.org/vaccine.html.
F
ROM
S
OUTH
A
SIA TO
C
HINA
& E
UROPE
Before 200 BC the practice was
carried along trade routes north &
east to India (alongside sacred cow
worship) & much later to China.
Exploration records from the 1500s
show that the Brahmins of India
were variolating dried pus from
smallpox postules to induce
“immunity” as a regular practice.
Co-founder of the Jesuit Order,
Francis Xavier (1506-1552) spent 10
yrs in India where it is claimed that
he picked up this practice from
Brahmin priests & later introduced
it to limited areas of south Europe.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/virusvaccine/history
.htm. S. Plotkin et al.; Vaccines; Elsevier, 2008.
www.reformation.org/vaccine.html.
Malaba
Women
Invoking
Goddess of
smallpox
D
EVELOPMENTS IN THE
UK
Lady Montague wife of the British Ambassador
to the Ottoman Empire upon returning to
England, in 1722, widely promoted the practice
of variolation (inoculation) for smallpox after
having observed this practice among the Turks.
Victims of variolation could be found at all levels
of British society; King George III lost a son to
the procedure, as did many others.
1
In 1840 - although variolation was endorsed by the
Royal College of Physicians – it was condemned by
an Act of Parliament as a criminal offense.
1. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/montagu-smallpox.html ;
2. Act of 4 & 5 Victoria, C. 29, s. 8; July 23, 1840; English
Statues, Vol. XV.; p. 353.

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