Protection from Smallpox before 1700: the "Buying of Pustules" in Early Modern Central Europe

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=7Nh0zHfq7J" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=7Nh0zHfq7J</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/virus20" target="_blank" >10.1553/virus20</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Protection from Smallpox before 1700: the "Buying of Pustules" in Early Modern Central Europe

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Smallpox posed a significant epidemiological threat in the early modern period. The eradication of smallpox in the 20th century was preceded by numerous medical discoveries, such as vaccination. Even before that, so-called variolation, i.e. an older and riskier form of smallpox protection, had spread in Europe after being imported from the East in the 1720s. This text explains how Europeans fought smallpox even before variolation was introduced. The records in the medical literature of the second half of the 17th century show that there were at least two independent traditions within which attempts were made to reduce the effects of smallpox. The first was based on an academic medical environment and can apparently be first found in the work of Franciscus de le Boë. The other was part of a folk tradition, the so-called &quot;buying of pustules&quot;, which was practised in the territory of northern Italy, the British Isles and Poland. In order to be able to present the mentioned methods in a broader context, this paper deals with contemporary views of the pathology of smallpox and also gender-specific aspects of the history of the disease.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Protection from Smallpox before 1700: the "Buying of Pustules" in Early Modern Central Europe

Popis výsledku anglicky

Smallpox posed a significant epidemiological threat in the early modern period. The eradication of smallpox in the 20th century was preceded by numerous medical discoveries, such as vaccination. Even before that, so-called variolation, i.e. an older and riskier form of smallpox protection, had spread in Europe after being imported from the East in the 1720s. This text explains how Europeans fought smallpox even before variolation was introduced. The records in the medical literature of the second half of the 17th century show that there were at least two independent traditions within which attempts were made to reduce the effects of smallpox. The first was based on an academic medical environment and can apparently be first found in the work of Franciscus de le Boë. The other was part of a folk tradition, the so-called &quot;buying of pustules&quot;, which was practised in the territory of northern Italy, the British Isles and Poland. In order to be able to present the mentioned methods in a broader context, this paper deals with contemporary views of the pathology of smallpox and also gender-specific aspects of the history of the disease.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA20-03823S" target="_blank" >GA20-03823S: Jan Marek Marci z Kronlandu (1595-1667) v souvislostech českého filozofického baroka</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Virus. Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin

ISSN

1605-7066

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

20

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

June

Stát vydavatele periodika

AT - Rakouská republika

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

41-53

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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