tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post7255111442298010450..comments2024-02-15T17:04:14.226+01:00Comments on Jane Is The One: cholera and poliojanestheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17617250693471034197noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-83594585794862061912011-11-23T09:24:56.611+01:002011-11-23T09:24:56.611+01:00As you clearly understand, Jane, polio was also he...As you clearly understand, Jane, polio was also here in the late 1940s. But so was the NHS, which allowed enterprising medics to work hard at mitigating its aftereffects, equally for all sufferers.<br />I remember studying the sewer system of Manchester as a school project - and I'm a few years older than you.dreamingspirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00324207120279777521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-84543786358694467762011-11-22T20:52:11.410+01:002011-11-22T20:52:11.410+01:00We used to have measles (or was it chicken pox) pa...We used to have measles (or was it chicken pox) parties, when children would gather to catch the disease from one who had it.<br />One certain thing - childhood illnesses can be vicious to an adult.<br />L9Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-534198089933813702011-11-22T11:14:34.287+01:002011-11-22T11:14:34.287+01:00Does having the flu jab give you a cold? Some swea...Does having the flu jab give you a cold? Some swear it does but medics say it's a cold you were going to get anyway.<br />Mobile phones are now proven to be harmful for young users - until the next set of experts come out with their findings!<br />L9<br />(Sorry if you get this twice Jane, pc finger trouble!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-45994510203644942132011-11-21T17:54:33.308+01:002011-11-21T17:54:33.308+01:00Moliere said that “The English are mad – they make...Moliere said that “The English are mad – they make their children ill to prevent them from becoming so!” This with reference to vaccination, and the wonderful Lady Mary Montagu Wortley, who in 1721 brought back from Turkey the counter-intuitive idea of sticking smallpox pus into her babies to prevent them from getting it at a later date. Seventy years later, Dr Jenner was merely following in her footsteps.<br /><br />The good Dr Snow was also Queen Victoria’s anaesthetist in 1853, which made the practice acceptable during childbirth, so we should be grateful to him for that as well.Augustus Carpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-29888796282764075672011-11-21T13:17:15.432+01:002011-11-21T13:17:15.432+01:00Very interested to see that you have enjoyed Neme...Very interested to see that you have enjoyed Nemesis - because I considered buying it I will now.<br /><br />What attracetd me to it was because it did not seem AT ALL to be like his other books. Don't like the others at all - but this did seem different. I will give it a go now.<br /><br />By the by, Solar is now on GCSE/GCE exam lists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com