A letter to Sir John Sinclair, Bart. concerning the virtues of the muriatic acid, or spirit of sea-salt, in the cure of putrid diseases / by Sir William Fordyce.

Date:
1790
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Credit: A letter to Sir John Sinclair, Bart. concerning the virtues of the muriatic acid, or spirit of sea-salt, in the cure of putrid diseases / by Sir William Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ^0 the Editor of the European Magazine, Geerge-Jlreet, Hano'ver-fqitare, J/>riI iZf ljSi- SIR, Hearing lately of the great fuccefs attending Inoculation for the Small-pox at Luton, in Bedfordfhire, I was naturally led to enquire into the feveral particulars relative to that matter. Amongft other in- formations, fome of them perhaps of doubt- ful authority, I have been favoured with the following authentic account by the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Stuart, reftor of the parifli. If you fhould judge the communication to be of fufEcient importance to the public, I doubt not of your giving it a place in your Magazine in which cafe it may be deemed a curiofity by fome of your readers, to be informed, that Mr. Stuart is a grandfon of the late Right Hon. Lady Mary Wortley Montague, who firft introduced inoculation into this country. To