Vaccination : a history : from Lady Montagu and genetic engineering / Hervé Bazin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bazin, H.

Series:

Médecine Sciences/Sélection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vaccination--History.

Vaccination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (551 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montrouge, France : John Libbey Eurotext, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The history of vaccinations is a significant phase in the history of humanity. With the development of hygiene, vaccinations have certainly been the most notable progress of medicine. This is a simple translation of the work L'Histoire des vaccinations published in 2008. In particular, it features a chapter dedicated entirely to yellow fever.

Contents:

""Vaccination: a History""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""I - Prehistory""; ""1 - Smallpox or Variola""; ""The Arrival of Smallpox in the Western World""; ""Ordinary Smallpox""; ""Various Forms of Smallpox""; ""Treatments""; ""Extent of Mortality Due to Smallpox""; ""2 - Lady Montagu Brings Variolation from Turkey: 1721...""; ""Announcement of Variolation in the Western World: circa 1700""; ""Lady Mary Wortley Montagu""; ""The Entry of Smallpox Inoculation in the Western World""; ""The First Wave of Inoculations in England: 1722-1730, and on the Continent""

""Revival of Inoculation in Anglo Saxon Countries, circa 1738""""The Situation in Continental Europe, Particularly in France""; ""In France, Excesses, Prohibition and Clamour""; ""Improvement of the Variolation Technique by the Suttons: 1760 - 1763""; ""Variolation Gains Ground Gradually: the Period after the Suttons""; ""Was it Wise to Be Variolated in the Eighteenth Century?""; ""Smallpox Inoculation: a Medical Revolution""; ""3 - Smallpox Vaccination and its Uses from Jenner to Pasteur: 1796... to 1880-1900""; ""The Birth of Vaccination""; ""The First Vaccination, May 14, 1796""

""The Remarkable Speed of Dissemination of the Jennerian Vaccination""""Arrival of Jennerian Vaccination in Napoleonic France, from 1800 to 1815""; ""The Vaccination Technique""; ""Arm-to-arm Jennerian Vaccination, 1815 to 1864... or until the End of the Century!""; ""Vaccination and its (Major) Problems""; ""Are Cowpox, Horsepox, Sheeppox, Vaccinia and Smallpox the Same Disease due to a Single Agent?""; ""Does Vaccination Confer Permanent Protection? Is Revaccination Necessary?""; ""The Search for Cowpox or Horsepox to Regenerate Vaccine Strains""

""Transport and Conservation of the Vaccine""""Animal Vaccine: Solution to Vaccinal Syphilis?""; ""How to Encourage the Population to Be Vaccinated?""; ""The Medical Professions and Vaccination""; ""4 - Inoculation (Variolation) Reaches an Impasse""; ""The Cattle Plague: 1744...""; ""Clavelisation, about 1800""; ""Louis Willems and Bovine Pleuropneumonia: 1852...""; ""Syphilisation or Vaccination against Syphilis: 1844...""; ""Humans and Animals Are Inoculated (Variolated) with Almost Anything""; ""In Animals""; ""In Humans""; ""Conclusion""; ""II - Pasteur and Vaccines""

""5 - The Chicken Cholera Vaccine""""The Culture of the Chicken Cholera Germ: 1879""; ""The Extraordinary Discovery of the Chicken Cholera Vaccine: 1879-""; ""Pasteur�s Discovery and Related Controversies""; ""Was Pasteur Secretive and a Fraud, or a Selfless Genius?""; ""6 - Cattle Anthrax and Splenic Fever in Sheep: 1880-1881...""; ""The History of Ruminant Anthrax""; ""Pasteur Investigates Ruminant Anthrax""; ""Henry Toussaint: an Intruder in the Field of Vaccines""; ""Pasteur Mounts a Counter-Attack, without Amunition""; ""Toussaint�s Work as Seen by his Contemporaries""

""The Wind Shifts: Toussaint Loses Favour""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 17, 2014).

ISBN:

9782742013449

274201344X

OCLC:

874162694