Volume 1

History and pathology of vaccination / by Edgar M. Crookshank.

  • Edgar Crookshank
Date:
1889
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Credit: History and pathology of vaccination / by Edgar M. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this, Dr. Hecquet published a thesis entitled Raisons de doute contre Iinocidation, and this, together with the reports of the failures in Boston, U.S.A., and the great mortality of the natural Small Pox in London, which was attributed to the new practice, soon brought inoculation into disrepute in France, and the proposed experiments were abandoned. In 1752, attention was again paid to this subject, owing to a publication of Dr. Butini of Montpelier, and two years later, M. de la Condamine read a paper on the advantages of inoculation before the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris; but it was not until 1755 that the practice was really introduced into France. M. Turgot inoculated a child four years old, and M. Chastellux, aged twenty-one, also submitted to the operation. Dr. Hosty, who, at the request of the French Minister, had been attending the Small Pox and Inoculation Hospitals in London, on his return reported favourably of inoculation, and this report had immense effect in promoting it in France. In 1756, the family of the Duke of Orleans, and very many persons of high rank, were inoculated by different physicians, and in 1758, the practice was introduced into most of the large towns. In 1760, Angelo Gatti settled in Paris. His patients had so few pustules that it was said that he diluted the virus. Reports of failures excited general alarm, and led to a violent controversy. A very fatal outbreak of Small Pox in
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