Battling smallpox before vaccination : : inoculation in eighteenth-century Germany / / by Jennifer D. Penschow.

"When smallpox inoculation entered western medical practice in 1721 it aroused considerable controversy. A broad-based cohort of enlightened Germans such as publishers, poets, pastors and elite women attempted to dispel the doubts and encourage the innovative procedure. Yet many parents remaine...

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