[K3CAL] Fwd: Innoculations and Electro Convulsive Treatment in Colonial Maryland

[Richard Terlisner]

Ha Ha Ha!!!!!!!!

 i just saw this.  i remember getting zapped by a large capacitor once.  i
thought they were going to have to peel me off the ceiling with a putty
knife!

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 6:32 PM Dave via K3CAL <k3cal at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> I was reading the last paragraph and just seeing a girl being hooked up to
> a capacitor several times a day until she started hearing.  Enjoy.
>
> Dave
> KB3RAN
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> Inoculations
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> Silas Hurry, HSMC Archaeological Laboratory Director and Curator of
> Collections (retired), discusses some medicine practiced in colonial
> Maryland.
> "In these days of the COVID pandemic, I thought it might be interesting to
> reflect back on disease and its treatment. Henry Jerningham lived in
> Bushwood, Maryland, and offered smallpox inoculations. This was the
> intentional infection with the actual smallpox virus. Apparently, there are
> two varieties of smallpox, variola major and variola minor, with one far
> deadlier than the other. The inoculation involved introducing pus from a
> smallpox sore into a scarified area. Dr. Jerningham then monitored the
> patients as they developed a hopefully minor case of smallpox which
> provided lifetime immunity to the virus.
> This type of inoculation was popularized in America by Cotton Mather
> during a smallpox epidemic in Massachusetts in the 1720s. He learned about
> the process from his enslaved West African man named Onesimus. While Mather
> promoted it, it was considered very controversial in the 1720s in Boston –
> Mather actually received death threats and the disdain of the medical
> community. It slowly gathered acceptance over the course of the 18th
> century. In the 19th century, Edward Jenner observed that milkmaids did not
> get smallpox having been infected with a far less lethal disease called
> cowpox. Jenner introduced inoculation with cowpox, also known as vaccinae
> virus (from the Latin vacca for cow). Our term vaccine comes from this
> cowpox virus.
> Dr. Jerningham provided a wide range of medical procedures. When looking
> at his probate inventory from 1774, I noticed a rather unusual device.
> Apparently, Dr. Jerningham was providing electro-convulsive treatment for
> his patients. Essentially the apparatus was a galvanic generator that would
> discharge direct current. A testimonial appears in the Maryland Gazette in
> 1761 which claims the treatment cured a case of deafness. The same
> treatment was applied to a range of ailments.
> Jerningham is an amazing character, attempting to found a Catholic refuge
> in Louisiana and giving unusually specific directions for the disposition
> of his body after his death, including dissection and the use of lots of
> quicklime."
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