Wouter van Doeveren

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(1730 - 1783)
http://hoogleraren.leidenuniv.nl/id/651
http://www.ntvg.nl/publicatie/vertegenwoordiging-der-pathologische-anatomie-door-gualtherus-van-doeveren-en-eduard-sand/pdf
http://books.google.com/books?id=nGVEAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA74#v=onepage&q&f=true
Van Doeveren was an early proponent of smallpox inoculation. In 1774 he personally inoculated Prince Willem Frederik, the later King Willem I of the Netherlands, using variola inoculation, at the request of his tutor Gaubius who was personal physician of Prince Willem V . This was more than 20 years before Edward Jenner popularized cow-pox vaccine in England.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gualtherus_van_Doeveren
Van Doeveren @ Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
http://books.google.com/books?id=Arw1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA129#v=onepage&q&f=true
http://books.google.com/books?id=CDcOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA150#v=onepage&q&f=true
http://books.google.com/books?id=zww_AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA73#v=onepage&q&f=true
Wolther of Gualtherus van Doeveren @ Biografisch Portaal van Nederland
A.J. van der Aa Wolther of Gualtherus van Doeveren Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden. Deel 4(1858)
P.J. Blok, P.C. Molhuysen Doeveren, Wouter, of verlatijnscht Gualtherus, van Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Deel 4(1918)
G.C.B. Suringar Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van het geneeskundig onderwijs aan de Leidsche Hoogeschool 1866.
Carel Eduard DANIËLS De kinderpok-inenting in Nederland: meerendeels naar onuitgegeven bescheiden bewerkt. Amsterdam (1875)
Eduard Sandifort Natuur- en genees-kundige bibliotheek, waarin in het kort voorgedraagen worden alle nieuwe werken, welke, in de geneeskunde en natuurlyke historie, buiten ons vaderland uitkoomen, Volume 7 The Hague (1770)
Gualtherus van Doeveren Brief van W. van Doeveren aan Eduard Sandifort, behelsende een berigt van den gelukkigen uitslag der inentinge der kinderpokjes, onlangs te Groningen ondervonden, The Hague (1770)
Note: Both A.J. van der Aa and P.J. Blok, P.C. Molhuysen mention that Van Doeveren used cowpox matter for his inoculations. However, G.C.B. Suringar clearly states that Van Doeveren was using human smallpox matter instead. The letter of Van Doeveren himself to Eduard Sandifort leaves no question whatsoever that Van Doeveren was using human smallpox matter for his inoculations. This is important, because cowpox inoculation (vaccination) is a safer procedure than inoculation with human smallpox matter (variolation). In some cases the latter procedure caused the patient to die, and there was actually a risk that variolation would trigger an epidemic. For those reasons the procedure was performed with great care, and only if there was already an epidemic in town. In his letter Van Doeveren describes in some detail the various precautions he took to diminish chances of an adverse outcome.
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