<a href="#">An Udderly Ridiculous Home Remedy</a><br>
Doug Smith<br>
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<p><p> Copyright 2005 by Doug Smith<br><br>Home Remedies - Facts or Quacks?<br><br>That's what I recently asked myself. Myths and legends often<br>have their basis in a grain of truth. So I wondered if home<br>remedies, alternative treatments, and folklore cures might<br>also be based on truth. A little research provided these<br>astounding results!<br><br>Itching For A Cure<br><br>Edward Jenner is widely credited as the father of the smallpox<br>vaccination. However, twenty years earlier in 1774, a quick-<br>thinking English farmer named Benjamin Jesty saved his family<br>from smallpox using some pretty unorthodox methods.<br><br>Waiting Until The Cows Come Home<br><br>In 1774 the highly infectious and deadly smallpox disease was<br>epidemic. Farmer Jesty, immune to the disease because he had<br>survived it in childhood, feared for the lives of his pregnant<br>wife and children. Many country folk knew that people who had<br>previously caught the milder disease of cowpox from an infected<br>cow did not catch the normally-fatal smallpox disease.<br><br>A Desperate Plan<br><br>Frantic to find a solution before his family caught the disease,<br>Jesty took his family to a nearby farm where cows were infected<br>with cowpox. He injected his family with diseased cowpox cells<br>from the cows. Because vacca is Latin for cow, this procedure<br>later became known as vaccination.<br><br>This Isn't Bull<br><br>The mild cowpox disease came and went in the children. His<br>pregnant wife had complications and required the aid of the<br>local doctor. His family did not catch the deadly smallpox<br>disease, but word leaked out. Poor Jesty was ridiculed by<br>his neighbors, who expected his family to turn into cows,<br>or at least grow horns!<br><br>Edward Jenner was a tireless crusader in promoting the<br>benefits of smallpox vaccination. However, it was a<br>desperate farmer who used his quick wit and country<br>folklore to save his family 20 years earlier.<br><br>Regardless of who history credits, this home remedy<br>definitely rates as a fact rather than a quack!<br><br>(You may reuse this copyrighted article provided no content<br>is changed - other than line length - and the author's box is<br>intact. All links must be active hyperlinks or made active.)<br><br>================================================================<br>Doug Smith is a Chemical Engineer and the webmaster of<br><a href="http://www.SuperHomeRemedies.com">http://www.SuperHomeRemedies.com</a> You get free & natural home<br>remedies for fungus, lice, acid reflux, cold sores, yeast & more<br>at <a href="http://www.superhomeremedies.com">Home Remedies</a><br>Stay up to date with our Home Remedy News Blog at <a href="http://www.superhomeremedies.com/blog/">Home Remedies News</a><br>================================================================<br><p> About the Author 
<p>Doug Smith is a Chemical Engineer and the webmaster of<br><a href="http://www.SuperHomeRemedies.com">http://www.SuperHomeRemedies.com</a> You get free & natural home<br>remedies for fungus, lice, acid reflux, cold sores, yeast & more.<p><p><p><p><p> 
 

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