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.

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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.

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    modi morbi declarativa^ discursum ^fecimus, si in ea reperirentur mature diligenter & prout oportuit inquisivimus ; Inspectisque & consideratis singulis^ quae nobis, pro elicienda vera notitia hujus ambigui, inspicr^ enda & consideranda videbantur debebantque vi- deri, invenimus ipsam mulierem nequaquam fuisse aut esse leprosam, neque ex ea causa a communi hominum consortib 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 praesentata, per nos inspecta, visitata, & in hoc casu, juxta rei exigentiam, in omnibus, ut congruum erat, tractata, inventa est Sana, libera, nulla peniths specie leprosae contagio- nis infecta. In quorum omnium fidem & testimonium nos dicti, Wilhelm us Hatteclyff, Rogerus Marchall, & Dominicus de Serego, manibus nostris propriis nos ipsos praesentibus inscripsimus, & sigilla nostra al- ternatim apposuimus. Dat. primo die Novembris, anno regni regis Edwardi quarti post conquestum Angliae octavo. Et memorandum quod praedicti, Willielmus Hatteclyff, Rogerus Marchall, & Dominicus de