immune system

This week we learned about the immune system. We took Hope to the dr. to get her one year shots, and thought about what life would have been like in the "old days" before Edward Jenner discovered the small pox vaccine, and Alexander Fleming discovered that the penicillin in mold could be used as an antibiotic. Louis Pasteur helped us understand the relationship between germs and diseases, and Joseph Lister found that using antiseptics in surgery help reduce infections. So we went through the house and used every antiseptic we could find, to make a point. We looked at our neighbor's small pox vaccination site on his arm, and he told us his memory of getting it at about age 5. The kids were the most fascinated with the story of the Black Death that affected millions of people in Europe in the 1400's and how they didn't understand that it was self-inflicted by their own filth. We read the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and sang Ring around the Rosy. We were very thankful this week to be living in the age of vaccinations and antibiotics.

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