POD that the claims of variolation in the Vedas are true and develop into a basic idea of physical transmission of disease from one person to another.
Perhaps a Greek traveler in India witnesses the practice and returns to Greece at a time of a small pox epidemic. In desperation people try anything and the knowledge variolation becomes established in the medical community and corpus. The theory behind the process of inoculation may be illusive but the idea that disease is physically spread from one person to another, of a disease from a source of that disease, of contagion is established.
I’m sure I’m suffering from some sort of perspective biases here but how plausible is it and what could have been the butterflies in the development of medicine, hygiene and biology?
Perhaps a Greek traveler in India witnesses the practice and returns to Greece at a time of a small pox epidemic. In desperation people try anything and the knowledge variolation becomes established in the medical community and corpus. The theory behind the process of inoculation may be illusive but the idea that disease is physically spread from one person to another, of a disease from a source of that disease, of contagion is established.
I’m sure I’m suffering from some sort of perspective biases here but how plausible is it and what could have been the butterflies in the development of medicine, hygiene and biology?