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Ref NoDEP/HAJ/1/42
TitleLetter to James Hamilton from John Rutter, Liverpool, England
Date31 Aug 1806
TermSmallpox
Description Of ItemAddressed to John Ford and forwarded by him. He writes of Dr Abernethy's book 'On the Diseases of Health' which confirms Hamilton's theories. Hamilton's book helped him with a case of which he gives the details. He also recommends Fowler's solution of arsenic in a case of psoriasis. There has been no success in forming a vaccine society in Liverpool, England and vaccination is in decline. He comments on the situation in France and the conversion of American Indians to European ways.
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