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
Lucy Ward speaks to Elinor Evans about the story of English Quaker doctor Thomas Dimsdale, who took up the risky challenge of inoculating Empress Catherine II against smallpox, as a powerful statement at a time when the disease was ravaging Russia and superstition held sway.
“Shot in the arm. This is a study in injection and infection. All pupils at Lake View high school, Chicago, given tuberuclin tests. If susceptibility is indicated more definite treatment will be resorted to.”
- from the Toronto Star. February 17, 1933. Page 21.
ANECDOTE | Inoculation d’émotions grâce au parfum des fleurs ? ➽ https://bit.ly/3wJmD1B Un chroniqueur du « Petit méridional » nous parle en 1898 des travaux d’un savant ayant entrepris de populariser l’inoculation de parfums tirés des fleurs et censés procurer des émotions variées à quiconque accepte de s’y soumettre
On this day in 1885, the French scientist, Louis Pasteur, inoculated Joesph Meister, a shepherd boy, against rabies after he was attacked by a rabid dog. The successful treatment almost certainly saved Meister’s life, and ensured the science and practice of inoculation and vaccination was brought to bear on numerous diseases. Morgan’s wry poem celebrates the ubiquitous nature of particular matter and the scientific discoveries that revealed its existence.
Joseph Meister is inoculated by Pasteur’s assistant, as Pasteur himself looks on.
Source: Scientific American, December 1885 and Getty Images
Particle Poems 3
Three particles lived in mystical union.
They made knife, fork and spoon,
and earth, sea and sky.
They made animal, vegetable and mineral.
and faith, hope and charity.
They made stop, caution, go,
and hickory, dickory dock.
They made yolk, white and shell,
and hook, line and sinker.
They made pounds, shillings and pence,
and Goneril, Reagan and Cordelia.
They made Shadrach, Mesach, and Abenego,
and game, set and match.
A wandering particle captured one of them,
and the two that were left made day and night,
and left and right, and right and wrong,
and black and white, and off and on,
but things were never quite the same,
and two will always yearn for three.
They’re after you, or me.
There is more than a hint of sarcasm in Morgan’s poem in respect of science’s claims, but, arguably, if not for Pasteur’s risky experiment in 1885, the world may still be paralysed by Covid-19.
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