Inoculation of the small pox as practised in Boston, consider'd in a letter to A-- S-- M.D. & F.R.S. in London. [Three lines from Hudibras]
Douglass, William,1691?-1752.
Stuart, Alexander,1673-1742.
Boston : Printed and sold by J. Franklin, at his printing-house in Queen-Street, over against Mr. Sheaf's school,
1722.
The letter, dated Boston, Dec. 20, 1721, is unsigned. William Wagstaffe identified William Douglass as author and Alexander Stuart as recipient when he appended extracts from this and two subsequent letters by Douglass to his A letter to Dr. Freind, shewing the danger and uncertanty of inoculating the small pox (London, 1722).
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints,
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