A Letter to the Right Honourable Spencer Perceval : on the expediency and propriety of regulating by Parliamentary authority the practice of variolous inoculation, with a view to the extermination of the small-pox.

Date:
1807
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Credit: A Letter to the Right Honourable Spencer Perceval : on the expediency and propriety of regulating by Parliamentary authority the practice of variolous inoculation, with a view to the extermination of the small-pox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    modi morbi declarativa, discursum fecimus, si in ea reperirentur mature diligenter & prqut oportuit inquisivimus ; Inspectisque & consideratis singulis, quae nobis, pro elicienda vera notitia hujus ambigui, inspici- enda & consideranda videbantur debebantque vi- deri, invenimus ipsam mulierem nequaquam fuisse aut esse leprosam, neque ex ea causa a communi hominum consortio segregandam. [It then proceeds to detail the different species and symptoms of leprosy, and concludes thus:] Certificamus itaque vobis, in cancellariam ves- tram praedictam, quod mulier saepedicta Johanna Nyghtyngale, nobis pragsentata, per nos inspecta, visitata, & in hoc casu, juxta rei exigentiam, in omnibus, ut congruum erat, tractata, inventa est sana, libera, nulla penitus specie leprosac; contagio- nis infecta. In quorum omnium fidein & testimonium nos dicti, Willielmus Hatteclyff, Rogerus Marchall, & Dominicus de Serego, manibus nostris propriis nos ipsos prassentibus inscripsimus, & sigilla nostra al- ternatim apposuimus. Dat. primo die Novembris, anno regni regis Edwardi quarti post conquestum Anglia; octavo. Et memorandum quod prsedicti, Willielmus Hatteclyff, Rogerus Marchall, & Dominicus de
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