A letter to J. C. Lettsom ... occasioned by Baron Dimsdale's Remarks on Dr. Lettsom's Letter to Sir Robert Barker, and G. Stacpoole, Esq., upon general inoculation / By an uninterested spectator of the controversy between Baron Dimsdale and Dr. Watkinson, on the above mentioned subject.
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- 1779
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Credit: A letter to J. C. Lettsom ... occasioned by Baron Dimsdale's Remarks on Dr. Lettsom's Letter to Sir Robert Barker, and G. Stacpoole, Esq., upon general inoculation / By an uninterested spectator of the controversy between Baron Dimsdale and Dr. Watkinson, on the above mentioned subject. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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