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‘It Now Only Rarely Fails of Success’. Smallpox Inoculation In Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain

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‘It Now Only Rarely Fails of Success’. Smallpox Inoculation In Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain
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References

  1. Barnes, Diana, ‘The Public Life of a Woman of Wit and Quality: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Vogue for Inoculation’, Feminist Studies, 38.2 (2012), 330–62.
     [Google Scholar]
  2. Boylston, Arthur, ‘Daniel Sutton, a forgotten 18th century clinical scientist’, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 105 (2012), 85–87.
     [Google Scholar]
  3. ———, ‘The origins of inoculation’, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 105 (2012), 309–13.
     [Google Scholar]
  4. Brunton, Deborah, Pox Britannica: Smallpox Inoculation in Britain, 1721–1830 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1990).
  5. Clendenning, Philip H., ‘Dr Thomas Dimsdale and Smallpox Inoculation in Russia,’ Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 28 (1973), 109–25.
     [Google Scholar]
  6. Eriksen, Anne, ‘Cure or Protection? The meaning of smallpox inoculation, c. 1750–1775’, Medical History, 57.4 (2013), 516–36.
     [Google Scholar]
  7. ———, ‘Advocating Inoculation in the Eighteenth Century: Exemplarity and Quantification’, Science in Context, 29.2 (2016), 213–39.
     [Google Scholar]
  8. ———, ‘Smallpox inoculation: translation, transference and transformation’, Palgrave Communications, 6.52 (2020) <https://doi.org/ [accessed 4 December 2021]. [Crossref]
     [Google Scholar]
  9. Esfandiary, Helen, ‘“We could not answer to ourselves not doing it”: maternal obligations and knowledge of smallpox inoculation in eighteenth-century elite society’, Historical Research, 92.258 (2019), 754–70.
     [Google Scholar]
  10. ———, ‘“A thankless enterprise”: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s campaign to establish medical unorthodoxy amongst her female network’, Notes and Records, The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 77 (2023): 235–50.
     [Google Scholar]
  11. Grant, Alicia, The Globalisation of Variolation: The Overlooked Origins of Immunity for Smallpox in the 18th Century (London: World Scientific Publishing Europe, 2019).
  12. Grundy, Isobel, ‘Medical Advance and Female Fame: Inoculation and its After-Effects’, Lumen, 13 (1994), 13–42.
     [Google Scholar]
  13. ———, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
  14. Halsband, Robert, ‘New Light on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Contribution to Inoculation’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 8 (1953), 390–405.
     [Google Scholar]
  15. Lobo, Francis M., ‘John Haygarth, smallpox and religious Dissent in eighteenth-century England’, in The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century, ed. by Andrew Cunningham and Roger French (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 217–55.
  16. May, Maisie, ‘Inoculating the urban poor in the late eighteenth century,’ British Journal for the History of Science, 30 (1997), 291–305.
     [Google Scholar]
  17. Miller, Genevieve, The Adoption of Inoculation for Smallpox in England and France (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1957).
  18. ———, ‘Putting Lady Mary in her Place: A Discussion of Historical Causation’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 55 (1981), 2–16.
     [Google Scholar]
  19. Parrish, David, ‘A Party Contagion: Party Politics and the Inoculation Controversy in the British Atlantic World, c. 1721–1723’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 39.1 (2016), 41–58.
     [Google Scholar]
  20. Razzell, Peter, The Conquest of Smallpox: The Impact of Inoculation on Smallpox Mortality in Eighteenth Century Britain, 2nd edn (Firle: Caliban Books, 2003).
  21. Rusnock, Andrea, ‘The Weight of Evidence and the Burden of Authority: Case Histories, Medical Statistics, and Smallpox Inoculation’, in Medicine in the Enlightenment, ed. by Roy Porter (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 1995), pp. 289–315.
  22. ———, Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2002).
  23. ———, ‘“Merchant’s Logick”: Numerical Debates over Smallpox Inoculation in Eighteenth-Century England’, in The Road to Medical Statistics, ed. by Eileen Magnello and Anne Hardy (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2002), pp. 37–54.
  24. Smith, J. R., The Speckled Monster, smallpox in England, 1670–1970, with particular reference to Essex (Chelmsford: Essex Record Office, 1987).
  25. Stewart, Larry, ‘The Edge of Utility: Slaves and Smallpox in the Early Eighteenth Century’, Medical History, 29 (1985), 54–70.
     [Google Scholar]
  26. Van Zwanenberg, David, ‘The Suttons and the Business of Inoculation’, Medical History, 22 (1978), 71–82.
     [Google Scholar]
  27. Weightman, Gavin, The Great Inoculator: The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and his Medical Revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020)

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