The Adoption of Inoculation for Smallpox in England and France

by Genevieve Miller

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 and religion.

Based on diligent research in all available sources, this detailed study brings into relief the significant factors that made smallpox...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512813257
• ISBN13: 9781512813258
• Release Date: January 1957
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"