94 - [Medicine] COLON (François). History of the Introduction and Progress of Vaccination in France. Paris, Le Normant, 1801. One in-8 volume, full post-cowhide. (3) ff., X, 272 pp. Endpapers.

[Medicine] COLON (François). History of the Introduction and Progress of Vaccination in France. Paris, Le Normant, 1801. One in-8 volume, full post-cowhide. (3) ff., X, 272 pp. Endpapers. First edition of this important work devoted to the early days of smallpox vaccination in France, published only three years after Edward Jenner’s seminal research. François Colon (1764–1812), a physician and surgeon, was one of the first advocates of Jennerian vaccination in France. As a member of the Vaccination Committee, he participated directly in the first French experiments and carried out one of the first vaccination campaigns in Vaugirard in 1800.