Smallpox Inoculation in England and America
A Reappraisal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3464425 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Genevieve Miller (Case Western Reserve University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1956 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 476 |
| Publication date | 1956-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1917019 |
| PMID | 19928343 |
| OpenAlex | W2318084730 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
E VER since the eighteenth century, physicians and historians have believed that the permanent establishment of smallpox inoculation in England was in large measure a consequence of its successful employment in the American colonies, more particularly in Charleston, South Carolina, where it was used in an extensive epidemic in I738. After the new preventive measure was introduced to England in reports to the Royal Society of London and through the example provided by the inoculation of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's daughter in April i72i, it was tested in much-publicized experiments on Newgate prisoners. The successful outcome encouraged the Prince and Princess of Wales to have their daughters inoculated and stimulated other members of the British aristocracy to follow suit. But, it is said, after a few years the practice died out, people felt that it was a failure, and little was heard of it from about I728 until I743 when Dr. James Kirkpatrick of Charleston, then resident in London, published an expanded version of his Essay on Inoculation written during the Charleston epidemic. A large share of the credit for securing the practice firmly in England has been assigned to his essay and to the founding of the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital in London in
Ancient history · Aristocracy (class · Daughter · Genealogy · Inoculation · New england · Political science · Politics · Smallpox · Sociology · South carolina · Vaccination · Demography · History · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy · Virology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2012 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |