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Needham/NRI2/SCC2/300 contains:
1 Main file contents
2 Introduction (general position immunology)
3 Smallpox in history
4 Aetiology and theory
5 Methods of inoculation (earliest mentions) and attenuation
6 Smallpox inoculation in Europe in the Eighteenth Century
7 Vaccination (and Animal Pox notices in China, including louse of water buffalo story)
8 Background tradition
9 Ethnographical dimension
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title Methods of inoculation (earliest mentions) and attenuation
Reference SCC2/300/5
Covering Dates 30 July 1964–1979
Extent and Medium Paper
Needham/NRI2/SCC2/300/5 contains:
1 Typed summaries of Manchu books and manuscripts on smallpox and variolation. The list was prepared by H. Walravens of Hamburg, Germany. It is an unpublished German translation of part of a work in Russian by M. P. Volkova entitled 'Opisanie Manczurskich Rukopisej Instituta Narodov Azu', (Moscow, 1965).
4 sheets; Paper.
23 Mar. 1977
2 Sections on smallpox inoculation copied from ??? [Yu Mao-Khun / Yu Maokun] «?????,??» [Tou Kho Chin Ching Fu Chi Chieh / Tou Ke Jin Jing Fu Ji Jie], (1727), and related notes. Joseph Needham notes 'copied for us by asst librarian ??? [Liu Tso-Thien / Liu Zuotian] Shenyang ????, 30 Jul 64'.
Creator: Liu Tso-Thien; Needham, Joseph.
16 sheets; Paper.
30 July 1964
3 Joseph Needham's notes on ?? [Chang Yen / Zhang Yan] «????» [Chung Tou Hsin Shu / Zhong Tou Xin Shu / New Treatise on Smallpox and Variolation], (1741). Attached to the notes are manuscript draft paragraphs probably for Needham's paper 'China and the Origins of Immunology', (Hong Kong, 1980).
11 sheets; Paper.
1970–1979
4 Notes.
30 sheets; Paper.
1970–1979
5 Joseph Needham's original file title.
1 document; Paper.
1970–1979

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