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1 online resource (551 pages) : illustrations |
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Médecine Sciences/Sélection |
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Médecine/sciences sélection.
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| Contents |
Vaccination: a History -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I -- Prehistory -- 1 -- Smallpox or Variola -- The Arrival of Smallpox in the Western World -- Ordinary Smallpox -- Various Forms of Smallpox -- Treatments -- Extent of Mortality Due to Smallpox -- 2 -- Lady Montagu Brings Variolation from Turkey: 1721 ... -- Announcement of Variolation in the Western World: circa 1700 -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- The Entry of Smallpox Inoculation in the Western World -- The First Wave of Inoculations in England: 1722-1730, and on the Continent |
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Revival of Inoculation in Anglo Saxon Countries, circa 1738The Situation in Continental Europe, Particularly in France -- In France, Excesses, Prohibition and Clamour -- Improvement of the Variolation Technique by the Suttons: 1760 -- 1763 -- Variolation Gains Ground Gradually: the Period after the Suttons -- Was it Wise to Be Variolated in the Eighteenth Century? -- Smallpox Inoculation: a Medical Revolution -- 3 -- Smallpox Vaccination and its Uses from Jenner to Pasteur: 1796 ... to 1880-1900 -- The Birth of Vaccination -- The First Vaccination, May 14, 1796 |
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The Remarkable Speed of Dissemination of the Jennerian VaccinationArrival of Jennerian Vaccination in Napoleonic France, from 1800 to 1815 -- The Vaccination Technique -- Arm-to-arm Jennerian Vaccination, 1815 to 1864 ... or until the End of the Century! -- Vaccination and its (Major) Problems -- Are Cowpox, Horsepox, Sheeppox, Vaccinia and Smallpox the Same Disease due to a Single Agent? -- Does Vaccination Confer Permanent Protection? Is Revaccination Necessary? -- The Search for Cowpox or Horsepox to Regenerate Vaccine Strains |
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Transport and Conservation of the VaccineAnimal Vaccine: Solution to Vaccinal Syphilis? -- How to Encourage the Population to Be Vaccinated? -- The Medical Professions and Vaccination -- 4 -- Inoculation (Variolation) Reaches an Impasse -- The Cattle Plague: 1744 ... -- Clavelisation, about 1800 -- Louis Willems and Bovine Pleuropneumonia: 1852 ... -- Syphilisation or Vaccination against Syphilis: 1844 ... -- Humans and Animals Are Inoculated (Variolated) with Almost Anything -- In Animals -- In Humans -- Conclusion -- II -- Pasteur and Vaccines |
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""5 -- The Chicken Cholera Vaccine""""The Culture of the Chicken Cholera Germ: 1879""; ""The Extraordinary Discovery of the Chicken Cholera Vaccine: 1879-""; ""Pasteur�s Discovery and Related Controversies""; ""Was Pasteur Secretive and a Fraud, or a Selfless Genius?""; ""6 -- Cattle Anthrax and Splenic Fever in Sheep: 1880-1881 ... ""; ""The History of Ruminant Anthrax""; ""Pasteur Investigates Ruminant Anthrax""; ""Henry Toussaint: an Intruder in the Field of Vaccines""; ""Pasteur Mounts a Counter-Attack, without Amunition""; ""Toussaint�s Work as Seen by his Contemporaries"" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 17, 2014) |
| Subject |
Vaccination -- History
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Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
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Vaccination -- history
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Smallpox Vaccine -- history
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Smallpox -- prevention & control
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History, 18th Century
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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Medicine
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Vaccination
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9782742013449 |
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274201344X |
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