Author: John Baron

Publisher: General Books

Published: 2009-08

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780217092852

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. PUBLICATION OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF VACCINE INOCULATION INTRODUCTION OF VACCINATION INTO DENMARK, SWEDEN, RUSSIA, &C. &C--DISCOVERY OF TUT VARIOLX VACCINA IN LOMBARDY, &C. About this time Dr. Davids, of Rotterdam, went to Paris for the express purpose of seeing the practice of vaccination, and of bringing it into his own country. He was not successful in this attempt; the virus which he carried from Paris having failed he subsequently received some from Boulogne, which proved effectual. These facts he communicated to Dr. Jenner in a letter dated on the first of January, 1801. This gentleman also translated and published Dr. Jenner's Inquiry. As Dr. Davids had gone to Paris for instruction, so in like manner another foreign physician came from the Continent in order to derive information from the great author of vaccination himself. Dr. Reumont of Aix-la-Chapelle is the person to whom I allude. He had frequent intercourse with Dr. Jenner, from whom he received great civilities and every necessary information connected with his object. Early in this year Dr. Jenner published his account of the origin of the vaccine inoculation. Among other public bodies to whom he sent this little work he did not forget the National Institute of France. He presented a copy to that learned body accompanied by the letter here inserted. Dr. Jenner To The President Of The National Institute Of France. Sie, It is impossible for those who delight in science, on whatever part of the globe fortune may have chanced to place them, to contemplate without admiration the ardour with which her paths are cultivated by those illustrious characters who form the National Institute of France. Conscious that it is the wish of that society to receive as well as to diffuse kn...