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Weightman Gavin |
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Titolo |
The great inoculator : the untold story of Daniel Sutton and his medical revolution / / Gavin Weightman [[electronic resource]] |
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New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2021 |
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ISBN |
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9780300256314 |
0-300-25631-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 188 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Surgeons - Great Britain |
Vaccination - History |
Smallpox vaccine - History |
Biography |
Biographies. |
History |
United Kingdom |
Great Britain |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2020. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Lady Mary’s Revelation -- 2. Saving the Quality -- 3. Is It Worth the Risk? -- 4. A Rural Revolution -- 5. A Most Surprising Fellow -- 6. Sutton the Parvenu -- 7. Sutton’s Th under Stolen -- 8. Sutton Misses the Boat -- 9. A Suttonian in America -- 10. An Imposter in the Family -- 11. Inoculation for the Industrious Poor -- 12. Saving the Nation -- 13. Sutton’s Swan Song -- 14. Cowmania! -- 15. Jenner’s Debt to Sutton -- 16. The Battle for Vaccination -- 17. Sutton and Jenner: The Legacy -- 18. The Mystery of Immunity -- Postscript: Sutton’s Family -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Smallpox was the scourge of the eighteenth century: it showed no mercy, almost wiping out whole societies. Young and old, poor and royalty were equally at risk - unless they had survived a previous attack. Daniel Sutton, a young surgeon from Suffolk, used this |
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