The great inoculator : the untold story of Daniel Sutton and his medical revolution / / Gavin Weightman [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
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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| Pubblicazione: | New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xv, 188 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 617.0924 |
| Soggetto topico: | Surgeons - Great Britain |
| Vaccination - History | |
| Smallpox vaccine - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United Kingdom |
| Great Britain | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Biography |
| Biographies. | |
| History | |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2020. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The great inoculator |
| ISBN: | 9780300256314 |
| 0-300-25631-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819417103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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