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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    Propter quod quoddam breve vestrum tunc ibi- dem con tectum, & superinde viceeomiti comitatus praedicti directum ftrit in haec verba, Edwardus, dei gratia, Rex Angliae & Franciae, & DominusHiberniae, viceeomiti Essexias, salutem. Quia accepimus quod Johanna Nyghtyngale le- prosa existit, & inter homines comitatus praedicti communiter conversatur, & cum eis tarn in locis publicis quam privatis communicat, & se ad locum soiitarium, prout moris est, & ad ipsam pertineret, transferre recusat, ad grave dampnum hominum praedictorum, & propter contagionem morbi prae- dicti, periculum manifestum, Nos, Hujusmodi periculum, prout ad nos pertinet, praecavendum, & super praemissis quod justum est & usitatum fieri volentes, Tibi praecipimus quod, assumptis tecum aliqui- bus discretis & legalibus hominibus de comitatu praedicto non suspectis, qui de persona praedictae Johannae & de hujusmodi morbo notitiam habent meliorem, & ad ipsam Johannam accedas, & ipsam in prassentia praedictorum hominum facias diligen- ter videri &c examinari. Et, si ipsam leprosam esse inveneris ut prae- dictum est, tunc ipsam, honestiori modo quo po- teris, a communicatione hominum praedictorum amoveri, & se ad locum soiitarium, ad habitandum E