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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (79670)	3/6/2003 3:01:51 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

Karen, I didn't think the smallpox was in large enough quantities to be given to the general public as yet. The vaccine isn't something that can just be made up in kitchen labs. And as far as the medical folks, of course, it is their choice. If they wait until we are hit with smallpox, they will be useless to help anyone except themselves, and probably not even themselves. Smallpox kills 1 in 3 people. I do have a Doc and a Nurse in the family. Both say the risk of problems with it are so small that they are going to do so when it is available. They both may have had the vaccine by now... it's been a couple of months since we talked about it.

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (79670)	3/6/2003 3:17:06 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

Thomas Jefferson and smallpox vaccination over 200 years ago! Before the testing, testing, testing, testing... And he still lived to become President. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Autograph Letter Signed : Monticello, Virginia, to Benjamin Waterhouse, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 21, 1801 countway.med.harvard.edu After successfully vaccinating his son, Daniel, against smallpox, Benjamin Waterhouse sent a copy of his pamphlet A Prospect of Exterminating the Small-Pox (1800) to Thomas Jefferson, then Vice-President of the United States. Jefferson was keenly interested in Waterhouse’s work, responding that "Every friend of humanity must look with pleasure on this discovery, by which one more evil is withdrawn from the condition of man…. In this line of proceeding you deserve well of your country." Benjamin Waterhouse and Thomas Jefferson then corresponded on the subject for a number of months. As this letter from 1801 testifies, some vaccine matter from Waterhouse was used by Jefferson in experiments with members of his family and household at Monticello. The President then promoted the use of smallpox innoculation in other cities of Virginia, gave some of his vaccine to Dr. John Redman Coxe to begin work in Philadelphia, and even sent some sample matter with explorers Lewis and Clark to encourage the spread of vaccination throughout the country. Gift of Mary Ware Sampson and Margaret Thayer Lancaster to the Harvard Medical Library, 1941 8888888888888888888888888888888 geocities.com Thomas Jefferson - Lawyer >>>>After two years at W & M our subject left to study law with George Wythe, a renowned lawyer of Virginia. Jefferson called Wythe his "second father." At the same time he studied French & Italian, as well as English literature and history [surely coming across Locke!]. Jefferson was also fascinated with the emerging idea of inoculation. As such, he traveled to Philadelphia to receive a shot for smallpox. By 1767 he was admitted to practice law in Virginia. During these years of his law practice he oversaw the continued development of Shadwell. With this endeavor, like all others he worked systematically and carefully. He took detailed notes<<<<<