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Title: Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff), 1842-1900 Mann, James Saumarez, 1851-
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
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ly correct. Such great outbreaksof disease naturally called attention to the subject, and adetermined endeavour was made to reduce its fatal effects. Dr.AVoodward, Gresham professor of physic, read a comnumicationfrom Dr.. Emanuel Timonius before the Royal Society in 1714This communication was dated Constantinople, December, 1713,and it gives an account of the procuring of the smallpox byincision or inoculation, as it has for some time been practised atConstantinople. The interesting nature of the paper led SirHans Sloane to make further inquiries into the utility of thepractice. The accounts from Smyrna were satisfactory, but it was tion. MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 71 1742) not until the spring of 1721 that it began to be practised in a inocuiatentative manner by the medical profession in England, thoughit had already been adopted in New England in consequence ofthe great epidemic of 1721-2 at Boston. The merit of puttingthe inoculation for smallpox upon a practical basis rests with
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SIR, IIA.XS SLOAXE, BY THOMAS MURRAY. (£</ pcrmUsioii of the Roynl C^h.j,- ,,/ flmfh-hni^.) Lady )\Iary Wortley Montague, Avliose husband was ambassadorto the Porte. She had her son, aged five, inoculated in IVIarch,1717-8. The result was successful, for the child had a mildattack of smallpox. The Princess of Wales, with whom LadyMary was on terms of intimate friendship, took up the matter.Some preliminary experiments were made first upon three men 72 THE AGE OF VrALPOLE. and three women, condemned criminals whose capital sentencewas remitted on condition that they were inoculated, afterwardsupon six charity children of the parish of St. Jamess, and thenupon live more hospital children. The results in each case were

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