id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt b5644q79m6q Sean P. Phillips Pox and the Pulpit: The Catholic Church and the Propagation of Smallpox Vaccination in Early Nineteenth-Century France 1904 .txt text/plain 197 6 17 This dissertation examines the collaboration between public health officials, government administrators, and Roman Catholic clergy in propagating smallpox vaccination as a case study for modern state building in post-revolutionary France. At a time when boundaries between secular and religious authority were questioned and refashioned, religious authorities served an important role as intermediaries between Parisian health officials and far-flung parishes and villages. cache/b5644q79m6q.txt txt/b5644q79m6q.txt