TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
[Pg vi]: ‘L’Envoi ... xlix’ replaced by ‘L’Envoi ... l’.
[Pg vii]: ‘XV ... Physicans’ replaced by ‘XV ... Physicians’.
[Pg xiv]: ‘afflicted with with what’ replaced by ‘afflicted with what’.
[Pg xxix]: ‘records of the the Smallpox’ replaced by ‘records of the Smallpox’.
[Pg xxxiv]: ‘In the the words’ replaced by ‘In the words’.
[Pg xxxviii]: ‘two or or three’ replaced by ‘two or three’.
[Pg 3]: The date of ‘March 10th, 172½’ reflects the fact that it is an Old Style (Julian) date.
[Pg 49]: the term ‘efficiency’ here (and at the four other occurrences in the book) should probably be ‘efficacy’. These have not been changed.
[Pg 126]: ‘did subequently fall’ replaced by ‘did subsequently fall’.
[Pg 148]: ‘slow to repond’ replaced by ‘slow to respond’.
[Pg 175]: ‘not everflow when’ replaced by ‘not overflow when’.
[Pg 221]: ‘embarassments were’ replaced by ‘embarrassments were’.
[Pg 317]: ‘un-unwearied exertions’ replaced by ‘unwearied exertions’.
[Pg 322]: ‘CHARTER XXIV’ replaced by ‘CHAPTER XXIV’.
[Pg 350]: ‘than sauvity’ replaced by ‘than suavity’.
[Pg 363]: ‘13th February, 1823’ replaced by ‘13th January, 1823’ (see previous page 362, where it is stated that he died on the 26th of January).
[Pg 376]: ‘including a physican’ replaced by ‘including a physician’.
[Pg 410]: ‘from 1774 to 1708’ replaced by ‘from 1774 to 1798’.
[Pg 468]: ‘is tranferred to’ replaced by ‘is transferred to’.
[Pg 483]: ‘medica practitioner.’ replaced by ‘medical practitioner.’.
[Pg 503]: ‘and, inoculcated’ replaced by ‘and, inoculated’.
[Pg 519]: ‘which, by resaon’ replaced by ‘which, by reason’.
[Pg 551]: ‘repeatedy before’ replaced by ‘repeatedly before’.
[Pg 611-613]: a few ‘——.’ replaced by ditto mark (”), for consistency.
[Footnote [261] (anchored on [page 406]): ‘History o Vaccination’ replaced by ‘History of Vaccination’.