Guénel A
CNRS-INSERM Unité 158, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France.
Hist Philos Life Sci. 1995;17(1):55-79.
To the technical and administrative difficulties encountered by the propagation of Jennerian vaccination among Indochinese populations since the beginning of French colonization, was opposed the will to impose a western prophylactic method. This led to some aberrations, such as attempts of compulsive mass-vaccination with an ineffective and/or unsafe product. There was also an inherent contradiction between the French medical service's proclaimed wish to apply vaccination to the entire Indochinese population and its suspicious attitude concerning the know-how of local practitioners. But the important small-pox endemicity in Indochina also made this tropical area a great ground for experience because it led to advances in vaccine production methods, e.g., from buffaloes, and even in the 'science of immunization'.
自法国殖民统治开始以来，在印度支那人群中推广詹纳式疫苗接种遭遇了技术和行政方面的困难，而强制推行西方预防方法的意愿与之相悖。这导致了一些异常情况，比如试图用无效和/或不安全的产品进行强制大规模接种。法国医疗服务部门宣称希望对全体印度支那人口进行疫苗接种，但其对当地从业者专业技能持怀疑态度，这两者之间也存在内在矛盾。但印度支那严重的天花流行情况也使这个热带地区成为了一个绝佳的试验场，因为它推动了疫苗生产方法的进步，例如从水牛身上获取疫苗，甚至在“免疫科学”方面也取得了进展。
