Description
Inoculation — deliberately giving a mild smallpox to prevent a fatal one — was the most contested medical practice of the eighteenth century: it worked, and it occasionally killed the patient it was meant to save. Francesc Salvà i Campillo (1751-1828), the Barcelona physician who would later experiment with electric telegraphy, sets out the case as a legal process, weighing the evidence for and against before a tribunal of reason. It is a document of the moment when medicine began to argue from statistics rather than from authority, twenty years before Jenner made the question obsolete. This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1777 edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.
Details
Publisher - EDITIONS RECREASOFT
Language - Spanish
Perfect Bound
Contributors
By author
Francesc Salvà i Campillo
Published Date - 0001-01-01
ISBN - 9782387811745
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.7 cm
Page Count - 130
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