Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1244

LUIGI SACCO (1769-1836) Osservazioni pratiche sull' uso del vajuolo vaccino, come preservativo del vajuolo umano. Nella Stamperia italiana e francese [1801] [8] 216 pp., 2 fold. plates. 18.7 cm.

Sacco was Italy's first and most enthusiastic supporter of vaccination and, in this work, the first of three he wrote on the subject, he gives a history of vaccination and his plan for the inoculation of the population of Lombardy. By 1809, 1,400,000 persons had been vaccinated by Sacco or his associates.

Cited references: Cushing S6; Waller 8374a

Gift of John Martin, M.D.