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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Genevieve
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press [©1957]
Temas:
Smallpox > Vaccination.
Smallpox > history
Smallpox Vaccine > history
Variole > Vaccination.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Smallpox > Vaccination
England
France
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The New Scourge: Smallpox
  • 3. An Eastern Innovation
  • 4. Royal Patronage: Inoculation in England, 1721-1722
  • 5. Reaction and Controversy, 1722-1729
  • 6. The New Art of Preventing Distempers. England, 1730-1755
  • 7. The Fate of Inoculation on the Continent
  • 8. The Adoption of Inoculation in France
  • 9. The Effect of Inoculation on Theories about Smallpox
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Appendix A The Early Histories Of Inoculation
  • Appendix B. Check List of the Editions of Timoni and Pylarini
  • Appendix C. Ratio of Deaths by Smallpox to 1000 Deaths from All Causeseighteenth Century
  • Appendix D. German Doctoral Dissertations on Inoculation, 1720-1742
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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