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Genre/Form: | History Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Daniel Sutton; Daniel Sutton; Daniel Sutton; Daniel Sutton; Daniel Sutton |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gavin Weightman |
ISBN: | 9780300241440 0300241445 |
OCLC Number: | 1201516537 |
Description: | xv, 188 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | 1. Lady Mary's Revelation -- 2. Saving the Quality -- 3. Is It Worth the Risk? -- 4. A Rural Revolution -- 5. A Most Surprising Fellow -- 6. Sutton the Parvenu -- 7. Sutton's Thunder Stolen -- 8. Sutton Misses the Boat -- 9. A Suttonian in America -- 10. An Imposter in the Family -- 11. Inoculation for the Industrious Poor -- 12. Saving the Nation -- 13. Sutton's Swan Song -- 14. Cowmania! -- 15. Jenner's Debt to Sutton -- 16. The Battle for Vaccination -- 17. Sutton and Jenner The Legacy -- 18. The Mystery of Immunity -- Postscript Sutton's Family -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Responsibility: | Gavin Weightman. |
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"Adding a new angle...The Great Inoculator tells the forgotten story of Daniel Sutton, a lowly surgeon from Essex who became an inoculation entrepreneur."-Kate Womersley, The Spectator"Weightman relates [this story] with clarity and verve."-Gareth Williams, BBC History Magazine 'Best Books of 2020' 'This engagingly written account shows the debt Jenner owed to Daniel Sutton, a young unqualified surgeon working in Ingatestone in Essex from the 1760s. Sutton's practice of inoculation played a vital part in the acceptance of the procedure worldwide. This fascinating book throws light on the cut throat commercial world of eighteenth century medicine and surgery, and its connections with royalty, aristocracy and the lower orders.'- Virginia Berridge, author of Public Health Read more...

