Peter C. Plett: Peter Plett und die brigen Entdecker der
Kuhpockenimpfung vor Edward Jenner
Before Edward Jenner tested the possibility of using the
cowpox vaccine as an immunisation for smallpox in humans in 1796, at least six
people had done the same several years earlier. However, the findings of
these six people regarding the cowpox vaccination are either hardly known or
have even been forgotten. For the first time, the originally scattered
information on the procedures used by these six people has been gathered and
will be presented in this article. Detailed attention will be given to
the works of the teacher Peter Plett (1766-1823), the only one to
recognize the importance of his discovery for mankind. In 1790 and
1791/92, Plett
reported his findings to the Medical Faculty of the University of Kiel. The
faculty disregarded PlettŐs reports by neither responding to them nor changing their
methods of immunisation, as the faculty at
that time was still in favour of variolation.
This article contains
the available information and references concerning PlettŐs discovery, including the entire
sources from 1802 and 1815 describing his findings.
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