Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 3
2. Preface 9
3. Contents 13
4. Illustrations 15
5. 1. Introduction 17
6. 2. The New Scourge: Smallpox 26
7. 3. An Eastern Innovation 45
8. 4. Royal Patronage: Inoculation in England, 1721–1722 70
9. 5. Reaction and Controversy, 1722–1729 100
10. 6. The New Art of Preventing Distempers. England, 1730–1755 134
11. 7. The Fate of Inoculation on the Continent 172
12. 8. The Adoption of Inoculation in France 195
13. 9. The Effect of Inoculation on Theories about Smallpox 241
14. 10. Conclusion 267
15. Appendix A The Early Histories Of Inoculation 277
16. Appendix B. Check List of the Editions of Timoni and Pylarini 287
17. Appendix C. Ratio of Deaths by Smallpox to 1000 Deaths from All Causeseighteenth Century 290
18. Appendix D. German Doctoral Dissertations on Inoculation, 1720–1742 292
19. Bibliography 294
20. Index 341