More than a century after the invention of vaccines, a veterinarian stumbled across a technique to boost their efficacy in an unlikely way — by observing wounded horses.
Time to celebrate them indeed. Wild how their contributions have been overlooked.
Reminds me something Amos Tversky once quipped: "It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place."
Time to celebrate them indeed. Wild how their contributions have been overlooked.
Reminds me something Amos Tversky once quipped: "It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place."
Excellent article. But you forgot to mention Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who introduced innoculation to Britain, before Jenner.