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Globalisation of Variolation: The Overlooked Origins of Immunity for Smallpox in the 18th Century

Globalisation of Variolation: The Overlooked Origins of Immunity for Smallpox in the 18th Century

Hardcover

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 1786345846
ISBN13: 9781786345844
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd
Published: May 15 2019
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.48
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: 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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