Letters : [Geneva, Switzerland], to A[lexander] Marcet, London, 1800.

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Letters : [Geneva, Switzerland], to A[lexander] Marcet, London, 1800.

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Letters of Jean Pierre Colladon to Dr. A[lexander] Marcet, dated 2 June and 11 July 1800, discusssing the illness of their mutual friend, Dr. A. Aubert, and Aubert's efforts to introduce vaccination into France. Also discusses the first vaccination in Switzerland.

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Colladon, Jean Pierre, 1769-1842.

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Marcet, Alexander, 1770-1822

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Humphry Davy (1778–1829, APS 1810) was a British chemist and pioneer in the field of electrochemistry. He was a major figure in the reformed chemistry movement initiated by the French scientist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794, APS 1775). Davy was the son of an impoverished Cornish woodcarver. As a youth, he was apprenticed to an apothecary-surgeon with whom he pursued a regimen of self-study that included theology, philosophy, poetics, several languages, as well as,...