Vaccination for the empress. How Catherine II and Thomas Dimsdale saved Russia from smallpox. Ward L.

The known insight and sharp mind, Catherine II was vividly interested in philosophy, medicine and natural sciences, led a long -term correspondence with Diderot and Voltaire and invited a lot of outstanding scientists of her time to the court. Among them was the experienced English doctor Thomas Dimsdale, who in 1768 came from London to instill in the atmosphere of the strictest secret from the smallpower of Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich and (the first of the European monarchs) Catherine herself.

In the XVIII century. The “spotted monster”, the deadly virus of the smallpox, devastated Europe, and the empress well understood the threat that the epidemic carried to Russia. The first mass campaign to dispute in Russia, successfully carried out by Dimsdile, laid the foundation for modern vaccination practices.

about how the secret plan of the English doctor and the Russian empress was arising and implemented, fascinatingly and reliably told in this book.