While Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is renowned for introducing smallpox variolation to England in the 1720s, the systematic development of modern vaccines often occurred in public health laboratories. In the 1930s, bacteriologists Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering worked for the Michigan Department of Health. Their critical innovation was culturing the whooping cough (pertussis) bacterium on a medium of human blood, which allowed them to produce an effective vaccine. Facing skepticism and limited f

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Era la musa del cine adulto en los 90. Todos la veían en “Emmanuelle”. Su nombre era Sylvia Kristel. Su belleza cautivaba al público. Pero tras su picardía, escondía tristeza. - Su irresistible figura hacía ignorar lo importante. Había una mujer atormentada. Situación que nunca pudo superar y le condenó de por vida. | íconos

#OTD 1977: Emmanuelle star, Sylvia Kristel, mulled over the morality of erotic films, on the sexiest BBC show: Nationwide. | BBC Archive