Smallpox Inoculation in Africa

The Journal of African History

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1975, Pages 539-559

  Herbert, Eugenia W ^a  

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Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; IMMUNOLOGY; SMALLPOX;

AFRICA; ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, MODERN; SMALLPOX;

EID: 0016672488     PISSN: 00218537     EISSN: 14695138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700014547     Document Type: Article

References (1)

1. G.L. Kittredge, ‘Introduction’ to Increase Mather. and Cotton Mather, Sentiments on the Small Pox Inoculated (Cleveland, 1921), 4. ‘Inoculation’ is used throughout this paper to refer to the process of transferring smallpox artificially from someone infected with the disease to someone who is not but hopes thereby to contract a mild case and subsequent immunity. It is synonymous with ‘variolation’, used in the modem medical literature but not in the eighteenth century. Vaccination refers to infection with cowpox to give immunity to smallpox and was first described by Jenner in 1796.