Quotes About Inoculation

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation.

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves

to take upon us by inoculation when in health a disorder of which some die, requires great clearness of knowledge that it is our duty to do so.

We may be immune to typhoid, tetanus, chickenpox, diphtheria, but never memory. There is no inoculation against that.

may be immune to typhoid, tetanus, chickenpox, diphtheria, but never memory. There is no inoculation against that.

In the eyes of some religious conservatives, "the dangerous and sinfull practice of inoculation"1 represented an arrogation of God's unalienable right to deal death to sinners.

I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.

But a vaccine! That's preventative! People will keep taking that as long as they're afraid it's out there!

This effort had, in fact, come to represent a necessary counterbalance to the daily trial of mere coping, a hopeful inoculation against its wasting effects.

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

It's possible that they had a slight allergic reaction to a preservative in the vaccine.

and the drugstores were besieged by people asking for vaccination

the drugstores were besieged by people asking for vaccination

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

You get early inoculation against the idea of success if you're a poet. When I published my first collection of sonnets, I sold about five copies; now kids study them for A level. Wanting to be successful in that other world of money or fame is not interesting. Poetry isn't like that, and it never has been.

That's me! Elf had said. I reminded her that she had her sight, she could see, she'd always been able to see but she told me she'd never adjusted to the light, she'd just never developed a tolerance for the world, her inoculation hadn't taken. Reality was a rusty leg trap.

What was needed was a large-scale comparative study of different approaches to inoculation to discover which, in practical terms, was likely to be successful. But how to design such an experiment in the eighteenth century? There was only one answer: orphans.

Escapees from Communist China and the Soviet Bloc have inoculated America from the evils of Marxism in the past, but it seems every generation needs a new lesson.

In retrospect, Fenn told me, "One of George Washington's most brilliant moves was to inoculate the army against smallpox during the Valley Forge winter of '78." Without inoculation, she said, the smallpox epidemic could easily have handed the colonies back to the British.

One of George Washington's most brilliant moves was to inoculate the army against smallpox during the Valley Forge winter of '78." Without inoculation, she said, the smallpox epidemic could easily have handed the colonies back to the British. Even

One of George Washington's most brilliant moves was to inoculate the army against smallpox during the Valley Forge winter of '78." Without inoculation, she said, the smallpox epidemic could easily have handed the colonies back to the British.

For the mass prevention of disease, mass education is a key weapon.