"The Indian queens who modelled for the world's first vaccine" Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Sep 2020 4:00 p.m. PST |
"When Devajammani arrived at the royal court of Mysore in 1805, it was to marry Krishnaraja Wadiyar III. They were both 12 years of age and he was the newly minted ruler of the southern Indian kingdom. But Devajammani soon found herself recruited for a more momentous cause – to publicise and promote the smallpox vaccine. And her unwitting role was captured in a painting commissioned by the East India Company to "encourage participation in the vaccination programme", according to Dr Nigel Chancellor, a historian at Cambridge University. The cure for smallpox was fairly new – it had been discovered just six years before by Edward Jenner, an English doctor – and met with suspicion and resistance in India. Not least because it was being championed by the British, whose power was rising at the turn of the 19th Century…"
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| Dagwood | 22 Sep 2020 9:35 a.m. PST |
So saving millions of lives … and starting the antivax conspiracy theory ? |
| Huscarle | 23 Sep 2020 1:33 a.m. PST |
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