Published this on SubStack today. i hope you enjoy this accurate romp through human history and all the things we have tried over the years to trigger our own body’s medicine.
Mankind’s Successes at Triggering an immune response:
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In 1100BC we followed a grumpy man with a poisonous snake on a stick into the desert till it triggered an immune response.
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In 400AD we collected dried skin flakes from the cold sores of an old woman and snorted them up our nostrils to trigger an immune response.
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In the 1400’s, wax and feces collected from the soggy crack of a horse hoof was injected under the skin to trigger an immune response.
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The sixteenth century, we pricked witches with metal prongs drawing blood to trigger a village-wide immune response.
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The witch population collapsed fifty years later so we harvested the pus from the ass of a traveling cow and smeared it into the freshly opened sores of children sequestered in a barn. That triggered an immune response.
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By the 18th century we were mixing mercury and spit into silly putty and coated our wounds to stimulate an immune response.
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We scraped the dusty green mold from the surface of an orange freebasing it through our lungs to trigger an immune response.
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We inject aluminum adjuvant from the finest corporate logos endowed with government’s blank insert and the steady hands of a masked-zombie wearing scrubs.
All of these things and many more have been employed to stimulate our immune response. The historical innovations in this field have been remarkable.
-James