Considerations on the propriety of a plan for inoculating the poor of London at their own habitations: with a view particularly to the arguments urged in defence of it / by the author of a late anonymous Letter to Dr. J.C. Lettsom.
- Date:
- 1779
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Considerations on the propriety of a plan for inoculating the poor of London at their own habitations: with a view particularly to the arguments urged in defence of it / by the author of a late anonymous Letter to Dr. J.C. Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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