03423nam 2200601 450 991081941710332120240102112706.09780300256314electronic book0-300-25631-010.12987/9780300256314(CKB)4100000011370938(MiAaPQ)EBC6273005(StDuBDS)EDZ0002390511(DE-B1597)567810(DE-B1597)9780300256314(OCoLC)1198929344(EXLCZ)99410000001137093820200828e20212020 fy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe great inoculator the untold story of Daniel Sutton and his medical revolution /Gavin Weightman[electronic resource]New Haven :Yale University Press,2021.1 online resource (xv, 188 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrationsYale scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2020.0-300-24144-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexSmallpox 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 knowledge to pioneer a simple and effective inoculation method to counter the disease. His technique paved the way for Edward Jenner's discovery of vaccination - but, while Jenner is revered, Sutton has been vilified for not widely revealing his methods until later in life. Gavin Weightman reclaims Sutton's importance, showing how the clinician's practical and observational discoveries advanced understanding of the nature of disease. Weightman explores Sutton's personal and professional development, and the wider world of eighteenth-century health in which he practised inoculation.Yale scholarship online.SurgeonsGreat BritainBiographyVaccinationHistorySmallpox vaccineHistoryUnited KingdomGreat BritainfastBiography.Biographies.fastHistoryfastBiographies.lcgftSurgeonsVaccinationHistory.Smallpox vaccineHistory.617.0924Weightman Gavin1715669StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910819417103321The great inoculator4110517UNINA