November 2009

Scene Of The CrimeThere are a small handful of truly benchmark events in the human history of disease, misery, and death.   Joseph Lister's idea that surgeries should take place in a sterile environment, and that medical equipment should be cleaned between uses.  Edward Jenner's theory of vaccination, when he noted that milkmaids who caught cowpox did not subsequently catch smallpox.  And the nation-wide pasteurization of our nation's milk supply, which occurred in the late 1800s.


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