Notes suggested by the Franklin-Heberden pamphlet of 1759 / by Henry K. Cushing.

  • Cushing, Henry K. (Henry Kirke), 1827-1910
Date:
[1904]
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Credit: Notes suggested by the Franklin-Heberden pamphlet of 1759 / by Henry K. Cushing. 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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    [276] tion it is as perfect as when it left the press, and has gained that mellow hue time alone can tint. It bears this title: SOME ACCOUNT OF THE SUCCESS OF INOCULATION FOR THE SMALL POX IN ENGLAND AND AMEEICA, TOGETHER WITH PLAIN INSTRUCTIONS, BY WHICH ANT PERSON MAY BE ENABLED TO PERFORM THE OPERATION AND CONDUCT THE PATIENT THROUGH THE DISTEMPER. LONDON. PRINTED BY W. STRAHAN, MDCCLIX. This pamphlet had two authors, in each of whom there is reason to be interested. The account of the Success of In- oculation in America bears the simple signature, B. Frank- lin, of Philadelphia.. Franklin was in the second year of his second residence in London, not an unknown journeyman printer, but the representative of the goodly Colony of Penn- sylvania, Counselor at large of the American Colonies, high in the esteem of the wise and great of two continents. This is his preface. London, Feb. 16, 1759. Having been desired by my esteemed friend Dr. William Heberden, F. E. S., one of the principal physicians of this city, to communicate what ac- count I had of the success of inoculation in Boston, New Eng- land, I some time since wrote and sent him the following paper. This paper fills four pages of the printed pamphlet: the contribution of his fellow author, Dr. Heberden, the eight succeeding pages. In the Heberden preface is this statement, Printed at the expense of the author, to be given away in America. Wil- liam Strahan, the printer, was a little later Printer to the King, Member of Parliament, the old and constant friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson, according to Boswell, and intimate (3)