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CHAP. 51. 
Account of Sir William Watfon continued — His 
great acquaintance with the police of the city of 
London — Mifcellaneous papers written by hi?n 
• — His traBs on medical fubjeols printed in the 
Philofophical Tranra6lions — Zoological pa- 
pers- — Created DoElor of Phyfic by the Univer^ 
Jities Halle and of Wittemberg— ///V experi- 
ments on inoculation — His medical writings in the 
London Medical Obfervations — Conftituted 
me of the Vic e-T reft dents of the Royal Society 
— Elected Fellow of the College of Phyficians 
— Has the honour of knighthood conferred on 
him— His deaths and chara^er, 
WATSON. 
AS Mr. Watson had conftantly lived 
in London, he had been a curious 
obferver of the wonderful increafe and im- 
provement of that vaft city. He was ac- 
quainted, in no ordinary degree, with its 
hiftory, and its police in general ; and had 
particularly attended to thofe circumflances 
that were more immediately the objedrs of 
the 
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