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CARRO, Jean de (1770-1857). Autograph letter signed to Dr [Louis] Valentin, n.p. [Vienna], 1 January 1802, 4 pages, 4to (underlining of phrases presumably by the recipient).
A LETTER TO A COLLEAGUE ON EXPERIMENTS IN VACCINATION, referring to Edward Jenner's discoveries relating to distemper in dogs (which the public confuses with rabies) and the attitude of the Austrians and Germans to inoculation: 'Dès le premier moment où le docteur Jenner communiqua à l'Europe, par mon moyen, sa seconde découverte sur la maladie des chiens, je conçus les plus grandes espérances de voir ... la vaccine devenir un sujet abondant d'expériences utiles, par lesquelles on doit trouver un rapport entre des maladies en apparence tout-à-fait differentes ... La crainte de jeter de l'épouvante parmi le public qui confond la maladie des chiens avec la rage .... m'a empêché de me servir du vaccin produit sur les chiens pour en inoculer des enfans. Carro requests his correspondent to inform him of his work and undertakes to write to him about what German and Italian doctors are doing -- a certain doctor Ehrman of Frankfurt has attempted to prove by scriptural prophecies and patristic writings that vaccination is the Anti-Christ.
Carro, born in Geneva, lived during his working life in Vienna, conducting research into problems of vaccination, with a particular interest in meningitis. He published several works on the subject including a history of vaccination in Turkey, Greece and the East Indies. Louis Valentin (1758-1829), had been an army doctor and served in Saint Dominique until the French Revolution. Concentrating particularly on inoculation against smallpox, he spent some time in England and was a friend and the first biographer of Edward Jenner.
A LETTER TO A COLLEAGUE ON EXPERIMENTS IN VACCINATION, referring to Edward Jenner's discoveries relating to distemper in dogs (which the public confuses with rabies) and the attitude of the Austrians and Germans to inoculation: 'Dès le premier moment où le docteur Jenner communiqua à l'Europe, par mon moyen, sa seconde découverte sur la maladie des chiens, je conçus les plus grandes espérances de voir ... la vaccine devenir un sujet abondant d'expériences utiles, par lesquelles on doit trouver un rapport entre des maladies en apparence tout-à-fait differentes ... La crainte de jeter de l'épouvante parmi le public qui confond la maladie des chiens avec la rage .... m'a empêché de me servir du vaccin produit sur les chiens pour en inoculer des enfans. Carro requests his correspondent to inform him of his work and undertakes to write to him about what German and Italian doctors are doing -- a certain doctor Ehrman of Frankfurt has attempted to prove by scriptural prophecies and patristic writings that vaccination is the Anti-Christ.
Carro, born in Geneva, lived during his working life in Vienna, conducting research into problems of vaccination, with a particular interest in meningitis. He published several works on the subject including a history of vaccination in Turkey, Greece and the East Indies. Louis Valentin (1758-1829), had been an army doctor and served in Saint Dominique until the French Revolution. Concentrating particularly on inoculation against smallpox, he spent some time in England and was a friend and the first biographer of Edward Jenner.
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