Talking with Tyler Podcast with Sheelagh Ogilavi:
[Ogilvie]: Historically, there was another reason, which was medical guilds – equivalent to the American Medical Association, only very, very bad, back in early modern Europe, did not like the idea of this new thing, this new technique that he did not approve and he was also going to challenge his business model and was going to take away his fees from the treatment of smallpox patients. In France and Spain, it was a medical guild in collaboration with the Catholic Church, which advocated the state to make the variation illegal. It was a unholy alliance between medical associations and religion.
You can hear full podcast on “epidemic, guild, and firmness of evil institutions” here.
What is as a smallpox? [from Perplexity]
The conversion of smallpox was an early vaccination technique, including skin scratches or inadequate individuals through nasal individuals to deliberately introduce materials from smallpox pustules or scabs, resulting in a major form of disease with a mortality rate of only 1-2% compared to 13 to 30%. The practice was served in China in the early 16th century (to use before with some sources), Asia, Africa and finally in the 18th century in Asia, Africa and finally Europe and America, and in 179614, in 179614, Edward Jenner was served as an incapable for the vaccination method of safe smallpox. Others disease 16.
