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MAITLAND, Charles (1668 – 1748)

1668 – 1748

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1722 CE

#5414.1

Mr. Maitland’s account of inoculating the small pox.

Maitland inoculated the children of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in 1721, and also inoculated six condemned prisoners as part of the so-called “Royal Experiment”. Success with these trials lead to his inocula…