An Appreciation for Vaccines, and How Far They Have Come - The New York Times - 0 views
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Still, the moral was that bacteriology, that new 19th-century science, had figured out how one of the deadly microscopic bacteria did its damage, with a poison that could choke off children’s airways, and had invented an antidote, and that was miracle enough.
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ardenganse on 17 Jan 21I think this is interesting how science develops over time. We can look back at what we consider to be old science and think that it is basic, however, at the time it may have been revolutionary.
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I see this as a story that should help us appreciate the unending ingenuity of the science that finds ways to turn on our complicated immune responses without making us suffer through a disease that once choked the life out of countless babies.