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Royal Society's discussions of inoculation on Nov. 16: Royal Society,
Journal-Book
12:163 (1720-26), under Nov. 16, 1721 (with summary of letter from WD to Alexander Stuart). Crane Court:
www.royalsoc.ac.uk/library/index.html
. Sloane's French translation of Maitland's account of his Hertford experiments: BL Sloane MSS 4034, folio 17, qtd. in Miller, AIS 88, note 68; see also p. 89, note 74. London's Nov. 18 newspaper reports of experiments on charity children: Miller, AIS 88, note 69.

William Hutchinson's illness, death, and funeral: Thomas Hutchinson 2:188, 204; SSD 2:985 for 30 Nov. and 2 Dec. 1721; Thwing RCN 39747; B6 no. 106, Nov. 27-Dec. 4, 1721. Active in the House of Representatives through Nov. 15, 1721: JHRM 3 149-154. Dr. Thomas Robie: Kilgour; Robie; Stearns,
Science
426-35. Nicholas Sever's inoculation: Robie, Nov. 30-Dec. 18, 1721, cross-referenced with
Historical Register of Harvard
.

Applebee's
poor report of Boston inoculations:
Applebee's,
Feb. 3, 1722, p. 2285, qtd. in Miller, AIS 94. Inoculations of “Noble Duke in Hanover Square” and Charlotte Tichborne:
St. James Evening Post,
Dec. 7, 1721, and
The Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer,
Dec. 9, 1721, respectively, both qtd. in Grundy, “Medical Advance” 37, note 25. Maitland's Feb. 23 inoculations:
The London Gazette
no. 6040, March 6-10, 1722, qtd. in Miller, AIS 88-89. Jeremiah Dummer: CMA Preface (by Dummer). Daniel Neal: Neal 17; Miller, AIS 96 (Princess Caroline's summons).

St. James's orphans: Amyand, Letter to Sir Hans Sloane; Miller, AIS 88-89. Sloane's meetings with the princess and the king: Sloane 518-19.

Earl of Sunderland's family history with smallpox: Grundy, “Medical Advance” 22. Judith (Tichborne) Spencer, countess of Sunderland: Grundy, “Medical Advance” 26-27. Inoculation and death of William Spencer, Sunderland's son: MMV; “Persons Inoculated by Mr. Charles Maitland,” RSI, Part 1, no. 27, folio 220; Grundy, “Medical Advance” 22 (for quotation of newspaper articles).

The princesses' inoculations: Amyand, “List,” folio 2. Maitland pointing: “Persons Inoculated by Mr. Charles Maitland,” RSI, Part 1, no. 27, folio 220. See also Miller, AIS 96-99. Princesses' characters: Van Der Kiste,
King George II
129-30. Amyand's method: Amyand, Letter to Jurin, Jan. 16, 1723/4, in RSI, Part 1, folio 9, no. 2.

LM's letter to Lady Mar, April, 1721: LMCL 2:15-16.

Townshend inoculations: “Persons Inoculated by Mr. Charles Maitland,” RSI, Part 1, no. 27, folios 219-21. Tichborne/De La Warr inoculations: Grundy, “Medical Advance” 27.

LM's Turkey-merchant letter: LMEP 95-97; Halsband, “New Light” 400-403. Opposition: Wagstaffe; Edmund Massey,
Sermon
(on Job 2:7); Grundy, “Medical Advance” 23 (about Massey). Arbuthnot and mathematical analyses: Miller, AIS 106-07, 111-23. Prejudice versus paranoia: Grundy, LMWM 217.

Inoculations of Prince William, Lady Albinia Bertie, Lady Louisa Bertie, and Miss Selwyn, May 11, 1723: Amyand, “List,” folio 4; “vexation, persecution and obloquy”: adapted from Stuart 35; “Admire the heroism in the heart of your friend”: LMCL 1:340.

Sloane's invitation to ZB: Fitz 324-25, Mager 170, James Thacher, 1:189-90. Five more deaths; admission of poor doctoring; “who was he to refuse”; waning urgency to inoculate: ZBHA 20-33.

House of Representatives' attempts to outlaw inoculation: Hutchinson 2: 208; JHRM 3: 178, March 15, 1722, and 3:181 and 184, March 20, 1722. Country fears of smallpox returning to Boston: NEC no. 42, May 14-21, 1722. Town meeting on ZB's last six inoculees: BTR, May 15, 1723. Mob forcing inoculees to Spectacle Island: Robie, May 17, 1722. WD's slurs comparing inoculation to witchcraft and serpents: NEC no. 42, May 14-21, 1722 (first column, see Lemay for Ben Franklin's identification of Douglass as author). More rants: WD,
Abuses and Scandals
and
Postscript to Abuses
. WD's grudging admission that inoculation worked: WDCC, May 1, 1722, p. 143.

Grim numbers: ZBHA; WDS 2:396

Rescue of James Franklin: Mager; Lemay: “Printer, 1657-1730” then “1721,” June 12-July 7, especially June 20. Governor Shute's departure: Mager 174.

Advertisements related to ZB's departure (and describing garden): BG no. 193, July 29-August 5, 1723; BG no. 221, February 10-17, 1724; NEC no. 133, February 10-17, 1724; qtd. in Mager 170-71. Ambergris: ZB, “Ambergris found in Whales.” “Bear's grease” advertisement: NEC no. 172, Nov. 9-16.

Prince Frederick's inoculation: Miller, AIS 176; “Persons Inoculated by Mr. Charles Maitland, 1724,” RSI, Part 1, no. 29, folio 223.

Dispute over CM's FRS: Stearns,
Science
408-409, 419-21; Kittredge, “Cotton Mather's Election” and “Further Notes.” CM's letter of introduction for ZB to Dr. Jurin: CMSL, 402-03; CM's letter to Sloane: BL Sloane MS 4048, folio 241. Colman's letters to Neal and Hollis: Mager 174.

WD's charge that ZB went to London to inoculate: WDD 7.

LM praised for “protecting beauty and inspiring wit”: Aaron Hill's line (1724), qtd. in Halsband, “New Light” 404; see also Grundy, LMWM 221. LM to Lady Mar (
des amis choisies;
rat eating the cheese): LMCL 2:45-6, Jan. and Feb. 1725 (two letters condensed and abridged).

ZB's arrival in London with horses: Hollis 533. ZB's introduction to the Royal Society: Royal Society
Journal-Book
12:532-34, for February 11, 1725.

LM's encounter with duke of Kingston: Stuart 31.

ZB's letter home to Colman: ZB, Letter to Benjamin Colman, February 26, 1724/5.

Pierrepont inoculations: “Persons Inoculated by Mr. Charles Maitland, 1725,” RSI, Part 1, no. 30, folio 224; LMCL 2:49;
Daily Post,
March 3, 1725.

Princess Mary's inoculation: “Persons Inoculated by Claude Amyand, 1725,” RSI, Part 1, no. 9, folio 19.

Hollis's gossip about ZB's horses: Hollis 551. Prince and Princess of Wales's summer retreat to Richmond: LMCL 2:54, n.4. LM's letters to Lady Mar about horses: LMCL 2:53-55 (July and Aug. 1725).

LM writing up the
Embassy Letters:
Grundy, LMWM 199-201.

Richardson's painting: Grundy, LMWM 301-303. Richardson's friends: Gibson-Wood 74-86. Richardson's studio: Gibson-Wood, 65-72.

LM's son as runaway: LMCL 2:69. Duke of Kingston's death: Grundy, LMWM 250-53. Lady Townshend's and Sarah Chiswell's deaths from smallpox: Grundy, LMWM 248, 253.

ZB presenting book to Royal Society, and being asked to join: Mager 176-77. “It is and shall be acknowledged . . .”: ZBHA 40. ZB's departure: Mager 180.

LM's mention of America in romance: “Mademoiselle de Condé,” LMRW 39.

ZB's letter to Sloane, upon arriving home: ZB to Sir Hans Sloane, Dec. 14, 1726.

Boston's 1730 and 1752 epidemics: Blake 75-77; WDS 394-99; Hopkins 256-57; Mager 204. WD quotations: WDD 8-9, 10. ZB's and WD's 1730 publications: Blake 75.

Benjamin Franklin: Franklin,
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiographical Writings
38; Mager 178-79; Hopkins 243, 254-56; Duffy 34. John Adams: Fenn 33-35; Ferling 32-33; McCullough 56. Continental Congress: Hopkins 243. Washington and the inoculation of the Continental Army: Fenn, 88-103; Hopkins 257-261; Tucker 20-22. Inoculation's popularity among Revolutionary women: Hopkins 255, 260; McCullough 142-44

Later history of inoculation in London: Miller, AIS 134-71; Razzell. On the Continent: Miller, AIS 172-240. Physicians' “improvements” making the procedure “dangerous”: Grundy, “Medical Advance” 34. King George III and his son: Hopkins 61.

Jenner: Fisher; Tucker 23-27; Hopkins 77-81;
www.jennermuseum.com
(for quotation from Napoleon). Jenner “I was astonished,” Royal Society's rejection, “angel's trumpet”: Hopkins 79.

Inoculation chief contribution of Enlightenment: Miller, AIS 195.

Eradication of smallpox: Tucker, WHO. Indian resister: Tucker 106-107. Jenner on vaccination annihilating smallpox: Hopkins 80.

LM and her children: Grundy, LMWM; Halsband, “New Anecdotes”; Spence,
Grand Tour
346-46. Maitland: Bulloch. Sloane: de Beer. George I: Hatton. George II, Queen Caroline, and their children: Van der Kiste,
Georgian Princesses
and
King George II
. Harrison: Maitland, MMV.

ZB and family: “Boylston, Dr. Zabdiel, FRS” in James Thacher; Mager; Thwing RCN 6727; William Gray Brooks; Wyman;
Booke of the Boylstones
. Thomas (Tommy): Thwing RCN 6725; mastectomy and St. Thomas's Hospital, London: ZB letter to Dr. Mortimer, Dec. 17, 1737, Royal Society MM.20.7; “first fruit”: ZB letter to Sloane, Dec. 19, 1737, BL Sloane MS 4055, folio 248-49, qtd. in Mager 187. John: Parsons. Zabdiel junior: Shipton 317-18. Young Jerusha: Thwing RCN 6709; Mary: Thwing RCN 6716; Elizabeth: Thwing RCN 6708 and 57192. Jack, Moll, and Jackey: Thwing RCN 9395, 9441, 40077, 40068, 40084, 40086, 40258, 40330.

CM: Silverman. Samuel Mather: Thwing RCN 45053; Silverman; Samuel Mather. Onesimus: Thwing RCN 30145.

WD: Thwing RCN 24422; DAB; Alexander Hamilton 116-17; “Douglass, William, M.D.” in James Thacher 1:255-57; Bullock.

Cheever: Thwing RCN 15679.

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