What was the first effective cure for a disease in history?

frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 38 points –
28

You are viewing a single comment

There was the cowpox vaccine in 1798

and I suppose we have had effective pain-control (opium) for a very long time

  1. Anyway, the cowpox vaccine was an improvement on smallpox variolation, which was known to the Chinese at least by 1549.
1 more...