Tracts, on inoculation, written and published at St. Petersburg in the year 1768 ... with additional observations on epidemic small-pox / By T. Dimsdale.

Thomas Dimsdale

Date:: 1781

Credit: Tracts, on inoculation, written and published at St. Petersburg in the year 1768 ... with additional observations on epidemic small-pox / By T. Dimsdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[ 6? Wl ] The Grand Duke continued in high {pirits, and eager for the experiment. The fortunate event will be related in the fequel. But I muft not omit mentioning, that both the Emprefs and the Grand Duke were _ pleafed to permit feveral perfons to be ino- culated from them ; and by this condefcen- fion, the prejudice which had reigned a- mong the inferior ranks of people, that the party would fuffer from whom the infec- tion was taken, was moft effectually de- ftroyed. Immediately after the recovery of the Grand Duke, a nobleman of the firft dif- tinction acquainted me with the honour- able and generous: manner in which her Majefty propofed to reward my fervices ; and particularly that I fhould be created a Baron of the Ruflian Empire, and ap- pointed actual counfellor of ftate, and phy- fician to her Imperial Majefty, with an annuity of five hundred pounds a year, to be paid me in England; befides ten thou- fand,$