The adoption of inoculation for smallpox in England and France.
Smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century was the genesis of modern immunology. This new method of purposely contracting a disease in order to secure protection from it was an empirical folk practice from the New East that ran counter to traditional European habits of thought in both medicine a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Philadelphia,
Univ. of Pennsylvania Press
[©1957]
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