Comments on: Episode 4: Constant Companions http://missinglinkpodcast.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/episode-4-constant-companions/ A Podcast on the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:40:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Anne Frid de Vries http://missinglinkpodcast.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/episode-4-constant-companions/#comment-20 Anne Frid de Vries Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:41:18 +0000 http://missinglinkpodcast.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/episode-4-constant-companions/#comment-20 Nice episode. I was thinking, taking the arrogant superiority from the first essay, into the second, how many 'primitives' could have told western science WAY in advance flies carried disease? I think many http://anneisaman.blogspot.com/2007/11/dog-and-flies-on-missing-link.html By the way, this makes me think of the history of Inoculation, which was discussed in In Our Time a couple of months ago. The wife of the British Ambassador to Turkey, wrote from Istanbul, how the Ottomans inoculated against diseases, by deliberately infecting.... Nice episode.
I was thinking, taking the arrogant superiority from the first essay, into the second, how many ‘primitives’ could have told western science WAY in advance flies carried disease? I think many
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By the way, this makes me think of the history of Inoculation, which was discussed in In Our Time a couple of months ago.
The wife of the British Ambassador to Turkey, wrote from Istanbul, how the Ottomans inoculated against diseases, by deliberately infecting….

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