Contemporary reactions to smallpox inoculation in eighteenth-century France

The purpose of this study is to examine the medical, religious, and social reactions to smallpox inoculation in French society and to analyze the nature of the controversy and the dominant part played in it by the learned community and medical profession of France as it took shape in the general con...

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Main Author: Davis, Charles Michael
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/21621