F.-X. D’ENTRECOLLES S. J. AND CHINESE MEDICINE. A JESUIT’S INSIGHTS IN THE FRENCH CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING SMALLPOX INOCULATION殷弘緒神父和中醫:了解法國對接種牛痘疫苗的爭論

The article analyzes the 1726 letter from François-Xavier D’Entrecolles, S.J., to Jean Baptiste Du Halde, taking it as a Jesuit intervention in the French controversy over smallpox inoculation. The author argues that the text constitutes not merely an ethnographic account of “how” the technique was...

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Published in:Review of Culture
Main Author: Beatriz Puente Ballesteros
Format: Articles
Published: Instituto Cultural de Macau April 2006
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Online Access:https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40018/3766