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Talk:Essay:Greatest Myths of World History (view source)
Revision as of 03:00, March 24, 2009
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:::::: I'm with you-- I have no idea what difference germ theory could possibly make-- I pointed that out above. Basically, I add information to the article, and [[user:Aschlafly]] takes it away-- only now, it's a myth perpetuated by "Anti-Christians". [[User:Pepperlynn|Pepperlynn]] 20:21, 19 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::: I'm with you-- I have no idea what difference germ theory could possibly make-- I pointed that out above. Basically, I add information to the article, and [[user:Aschlafly]] takes it away-- only now, it's a myth perpetuated by "Anti-Christians". [[User:Pepperlynn|Pepperlynn]] 20:21, 19 March 2009 (EDT)
:Leaving any matters of "intention" aside, I came across this passage while reading Richard Mead's 1720 "Discourse on the Plague:"
:: "About the Year 1718, a ship from the East-Indies arrived at that Place: In the Voyage three Children had been sick of the Small-Pox: The foul Linen used about them was put into a Trunk, and lock'd up. At the Ship's Landing, this was taken out, and given to some of the Natives to be washed: Upon handling the Linen, they were immediately seized with the Small-Pox, which spread into the Country for many Miles, and made such a Desolation, that it was almost dispeopled."
: So by the 18th century, they knew that smallpox infected cloth could and did decimate native populations. [[User:RatselF|RatselF]] 23:00, 23 March 2009 (EDT)