Abstract:

This essay explores nineteenth-century French texts that depict Jenner's vaccine, highlighting the ways in which literature and print culture played a significant role in vaccination's diffusion by conveying, challenging, and even mocking the impact of the new preventative treatment and its scientific rationale. By examining accounts of the vaccine found in medical treatises, popular journalism, theatrical parody, and poetry, this essay argues that Jenner's discovery crucially provoked social commentary, stylistic experimentation, and meta-discourse as writers on both sides of the issue specifically attended to the mechanics of thought and the usage of rhetorical devices. This essay thus identifies how the vaccine was mobilized by French writers to discuss not only public health and social well-being, but also human understanding and forms of expression.

摘要：

本文探讨了描述詹纳疫苗的 19 世纪法国文本，强调文学和印刷文化通过传达、挑战甚至嘲笑新预防性治疗及其科学原理的影响，在疫苗的传播中发挥重要作用的方式。通过研究医学论文、通俗新闻、戏剧戏仿和诗歌中对疫苗的描述，本文认为詹纳的发现至关重要地激起了社会评论、文体实验和元话语，因为问题双方的作家都特别关注疫苗思维机制和修辞手段的使用。因此，这篇文章确定了疫苗是如何被法国作家动员起来讨论的，不仅是公共卫生和社会福祉，