Talk:Inoculation

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Reviewed version: March 19, 2006

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[edit] Emanuel Timonius

Emanuel Timonius was a precursor and contemporary of Lady Montagu. Reference: Timonius E. An account, or history, of the procuring of the smallpox by incision or inoculation, as it has for some time been practised at Constantinople. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 1714-1716; 29:72-82. See details in http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/127/8_Part_1/635 a brief article on the history of smallpox. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.251.155.215 (talk) 19:42, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Zabdiel Boylston

Is there a way to include Zabdiel Boylston in the history section? Cmcnicoll 01:06, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, just mention him. Midgley 12:18, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

From a nascent page called "variolation" Obsolete: inoculation against smallpox using material from a vesicle or lesion of a person with smallpox. Succeeded by vaccination after Edward Jenner

Originally practiced widely in India and China then spread to the Middle-East, from where Lady Mary Wortley Montague (1689-1782) brought it back to England in 1721.

Midgley 01:19, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] religion

British theologian Edward Massey preached and published a sermon The Dangerous and Sinful Practice of Inoculation in 1772. [1]

Clearly that didn't belong in an article on vaccination and religion, that starting in 1796. Midgley 19:45, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

In Boston there was argument with churchmen on both sides "...within a year or two after the first experiment nearly three hundred persons had been inoculated by Boylston in Boston and neighbouring towns, and out of these only six had died; whereas, during the same period, out of nearly six thousand persons who had taken smallpox naturally, and had received only the usual medical treatment, nearly one thousand had died. " [http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/whitem10.html A HISTORY OF THE WARFARE OF SCIENCE WITH THEOLOGY IN CHRISTENDOM ] ANDREW DICKSON WHITE

[edit] Failed "Good Article"

This article is not balanced as it basically, with the exception of the introduction, only discusses the history of the procedure. It is not very well structured. One noteworthy minor problem is not listing references in standard form. There is also a copyright problem with the first image (obsolete tag). Since the article does not meet the following criteria:

  • Reference: No footnotes;
  • Well written: 1- Should be broken down. 2- Would better be named "History of inoculation";
  • Broad: Article does not cover all major aspects of the topic, see 2 above;
  • Images: Inappropriately tagged images;

I hereby fail it. - Eagletalk 17:23, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Fixed a couple of those - the mechanism is straightforward but I agree adding it is worthwhile. COuld someone lse have a go at the form of the references, I still have trouble with that. The image is from NLM, and appears to be both PD-old and PD-USGov. Some of Holwell's writing is on view on the RCP website, but not the pamphlet referred to. Midgley 18:02, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inoculation in 18th century Scotland and Suffolk

http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1036632&pageindex=1 a well-written and comprehensive historical paper with references.

http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1082160 also looks interesting - Suffolk. Midgley 22:41, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The first bit..

Isn't inoculation for any disease, not for smallpox

Work har, Play hard, Drink harder 11:03, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The whole bit

I was under the impression that innoculation was both the introduction of a pathogen to a host as well as the continiued culture of bacteria or fungus. For example, breweries use used yeast from one brew to 'inoculate' the next. Furthermore, you can 'inoculate' a petri dish (usually containing nutirient agar or another nutrient medium) with a micro organism's culture. - 84.65.93.37

Thanks. I'll look into it. WAS 4.250 21:06, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How could this Relate to Ainceent India???

Does anyone know how this could relate to aincent India????? Please help me!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.128.126 (talk) 00:06, 26 February 2008 (UTC)