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night Good results. Universal joy of the people Inoculation 

 of the Grand Duke and of others Dimsdale created a Baron 

 and highly honoured Text of the patent of nobility Visit to 

 Moscow, and to Frederick the Great Return to England Con- 

 troversy with Dr. Lettsom Second visit to Russia, 1781 

 Dimsdale as banker and Member of Parliament His character 

 After-history of inoculation Dr. Haygarth Infection by a 

 medical wig Vaccination Inoculation prohibited, 1840 Patho- 

 logy of inoculated smallpox and vaccinia. 



CHAPTER X 

 DR. LETTSOM . . . . . -99 



Birth of Lettsom, 1744, in the West Indies Education at Pen- 

 keth, Lancashire Apprenticed to Abraham Sutcliff Introduc- 

 tion to Fothergill Study in London Akenside Lettsom re- 

 visits Tortola Liberates his slaves Returns and studies in 

 Edinburgh Enters on practice in London His foibles 

 Marriage Popular repute His work on fevers Founds the 

 Medical Society Paper on hard drinking Scientific pursuits 

 Botany Minerals The mangold wurzel His numerous 

 "Hints" "Dr. Wriggle" A day of societies The Sea 

 Bathing Infirmary, Margate, 1796 Lettsom's large income and 

 lavish generosity Reclaims a highwayman Lettsom's habits of 

 life His elegant literary style Dr. Johnson Lettsom's villa at 

 Camberwell Its gardens and adornments Poems by his friends 

 He fights Jenner's battles for vaccination Griefs of his later 

 life Serene closing years -Death in 1815 His character as a 

 Quaker of liberal views Loved by his friends His debt to 

 Fothergill Lettsom's house in Bolt Court The Isis tablet. 



CHAPTER XI 



OTHER MEDICAL FRIENDS . . . . .118 



Dr. ALEXANDER RUSSELL, physician and naturalist, of 

 Aleppo, later of St. Thomas's Hospital, London His work on 

 fevers. 



Dr. GEORGE CLEGHORN of Minorca, afterwards Professor 

 of Anatomy in Dublin His letters to Fothergill Book on 

 Minorca and its diseases. 



Dr. WILLIAM CUMING of Dorchester A county physician 

 of high esteem and liberal pursuits. 



Dr. GILBERT THOMPSON of London A Quaker, cultivated, 

 classical, diffident. 



Dr. JOHN RUTTY of Dublin An incessant student Writings 

 on hydrology, on the weather, on natural history and on 

 materia medica His introspective Quaker Diary. 



Dr. WILLIAM HUNTER of London, a great lecturer. 



