re: #71 allegro

Makes me think of the milk maids in days of old who did not succumb to smallpox like the rest of the population. Seems they gained immunity from the disease as a result of exposure to cow pox.

Your meaningless historical trivia for Monday.

Which is why milkmaids were supposed to have such great complexions—cowpox did not leave the terrible scars that small pox did.

One more piece of meaningless historical trivia: Benjamin Franklin was a believer in immunization for smallpox, but failed to immunize his own son Josiah in time. He regretted it greatly.