[953] Currie to Haygarth, 28 Nov. 1791, in Sketch of a Plan, etc., pp. 451, 207.
[954] J. C. Jenner, “An Account of a General Inoculation at Painswick.” Lond. Med. Journ. VII. 163-8.
[955] Gent. Magaz. April, 1788, reported by the Hon. and Rev. Mr Stuart, who was a grandson of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
[956] Monro, Account of Inoculation in Scotland, 1765; in his Works. Edin. 1781, p. 693.
[957] Statistical Account of Scotland. 1791-99, III. 376.
[958] Ibid. IV. 130. It was about the year 1782 that the College of Physicians of Edinburgh appointed a committee to inquire into the mode of conducting the gratis inoculations of the poor, which had been tried at Chester, Leeds, Liverpool, &c. in 1781-82. Haygarth, u. s. 1784, p. 207.
[959] Ibid. III. 582.
[960] Ibid. XX. 502-7.
[961] Ibid. XX. 348. Account by Rev. Abercromby Gordon, who gives in a note (p. 349) the following instance of professional zeal: “A surgeon in the north, presuming that self-interest has a stronger hold on man than superstition, has lately opened a policy of insurance for the smallpox! If a subscriber gives him two guineas for inoculating his child, the surgeon in the event of the child’s death pays ten guineas to the parent; for every guinea subscribed, four guineas, for half a guinea, two guineas, and for a crown one guinea.”
[962] James Lucas, Lond. Med. Journ. X. 269.