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(73,898 posts) Fri Apr 18, 2025, 10:37 PM Friday

My best Comment on an internet item:

The item/ said a JENNER offspring person was dressed as a milkmaid.

I said:

Marie Antoinette wore it better.

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My best Comment on an internet item: (Original Post) UTUSN Friday OP

Edward Jenner invented / promulgated smallpox vaccination by scraping cowpox puss off a milkmaid Bernardo de La Paz Friday #1

Uh, no, we're in the kardasianj jenner Age UTUSN Friday #2

:) Bernardo de La Paz Saturday #3

Well, old friend, am severely low tech so don't know what colon/parentheses signifies, UTUSN Saturday #4

It's a "smiley", the most elemental, the most primitive emoticon, precursor to emoji. Bernardo de La Paz Saturday #6

Sometimes a joke is just a joke UTUSN Saturday #5

And sometimes when my leg is pulled, I hand it to the puller. Judo comedic technique. ;) Bernardo de La Paz Saturday #7

Bernardo de La Paz

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1. Edward Jenner invented / promulgated smallpox vaccination by scraping cowpox puss off a milkmaid

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Fri Apr 18, 2025, 10:51 PM

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That Jenner?

On 14 May 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, the eight-year-old son of Jenner's gardener. He scraped pus from cowpox blisters on the hands of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom[35] (whose hide now hangs on the wall of the St. George's Medical School library, now in Tooting, London). Phipps was the 17th case described in Jenner's first paper on vaccination.[36] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner