Jean de Carro
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 Bust of Jean de Carro in the stairway of the old Kaiserbad at Carlsbad |
Jean de Carro (born in Geneva, August 8, 1770; died at Carlsbad, March 12, 1857) was a Swiss-born physician who worked from Austria to promote vaccination against smallpox.
Champion of vaccination
Taking up his abode in Vienna in 1795, he became celebrated by his efforts in spreading Edward Jenner's system of vaccination as a protection against smallpox in Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Russia. In 1800 he sent a quantity of virus to Lord Elgin at Constantinople, together with a work of his own, translated into Turkish, on vaccination.
The attempts of the English to introduce vaccination into
sacred cow
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Works
- Observations et expériences sur l'inoculation de la vaccine (Vienna, 1801)
- Histoire de la vaccination en Turquie, en Grèce et aux Indes Orientales (1803)
- Carlsbad et ses eaux minérales (1827)
- Vingt-huit ans d'observation et d'expériences à Carlsbad (1853)
For many years he published annually the Almanach de Carlsbad.
Notes
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References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the The American Cyclopædia.
External links
Media related to Jean de Carro at Wikimedia Commons
Works by or about Jean de Carro at Wikisource
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