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- Author: Alicia Grant
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd
- ISBN-10: 1786345846
- ISBN-13: 9781786345844
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.2 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
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Globalisation of Variolation: The Overlooked Origins of Immunity for Smallpox in the 18th Century (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu
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Devastating epidemics of untreatable smallpox caused not only deaths but dire disfigurements of face and body as well as one third of all blindness. In the 20th century mortality was estimated at 300 million up to 1978, the year it was proclaimed to be eradicated. Historically, the fact has been overlooked, often forgotten, that the preventative practice of variolation for smallpox was widely adopted internationally during the 18th century and was the precursor to refinement as cowpox vaccination. Never previously traced was the extensive global adoption of the technique or the impetus for this transmission and how, in these countries of its adoption, variolation was the prime mover for a national concept of public health with the establishment of free institutions. The global adoption of the first invasive medical prophylaxis for any disease, the origin of immunity, deserves its place in history.
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- Author: Alicia Grant
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd
- ISBN-10: 1786345846
- ISBN-13: 9781786345844
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.2 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
Devastating epidemics of untreatable smallpox caused not only deaths but dire disfigurements of face and body as well as one third of all blindness. In the 20th century mortality was estimated at 300 million up to 1978, the year it was proclaimed to be eradicated. Historically, the fact has been overlooked, often forgotten, that the preventative practice of variolation for smallpox was widely adopted internationally during the 18th century and was the precursor to refinement as cowpox vaccination. Never previously traced was the extensive global adoption of the technique or the impetus for this transmission and how, in these countries of its adoption, variolation was the prime mover for a national concept of public health with the establishment of free institutions. The global adoption of the first invasive medical prophylaxis for any disease, the origin of immunity, deserves its place in history.
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