Tag: Louis-Léopold Boilly
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18 Works, July 5th. is Louis-Léopold Boilly’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #182
Smallpox was once a common epidemic disease that killed, blinded or disfigured its victims. In the eighteenth century its impact was reduced in Europe by a Chinese practice called variolation, the injection of smallpox fluid from an infected human being into a healthy human. In 1798 Edward Jenner proposed a modification of variolation called vaccination,…