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<dl><dd>Translation of the author's Mémoire sur l'inoculation de la petite vérole (Paris, 1754), probably based on the text included in his Mémoires pour servir á l'histoire de l'inoculation de la petite vérole (Paris, 1768). A different English translation was published in London in 1755 under title: A discourse on inoculation</dd>
<dd>John Osborn "published La Condamine's treatise ... with an appendix of his own [Letters I-II] and distributed the work gratis"--Thacher, James. American medical biography, 1828, v. 1, p. 415</dd>
<dd>"Letter I" (unsigned request that inoculation be permitted in the pest-house at Middletown): pp. 32-33</dd>
<dd>"Letter II" (dated Sept. 14, 1773, and probably written by Jabez Hamlin, whose initials are supplied in manuscript at end): pp. 34-35. Cf. Austin</dd>
<dd>Two states of the title page noted: State 1: with date in imprint; State 2: without date in imprint</dd>
<dd>Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ E²</dd>
<dd>NLM copy states: Copy 1 (call no. WZ 270 L142mE 1773): State 1; Copy 2 (WZ 270 L142mE 1773a): State 2</dd>
<dd>Film 633 reel 58 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 58, no. 1116-1117)</dd>
<dd>Evans</dd>
<dd>Evans</dd>
<dd>Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut</dd>
<dd>Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints</dd>
<dd>Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints</dd>
<dd>Blake, J. NLM 18th cent.</dd>
<dd>ESTC (RLIN)</dd>
<dd>Microfilm</dd>
<dd>NLM Copy 1 provenance: presentation copy [from Osborn?] to the Honorable Jabez Hamlin, Esqr.; stamped in red on title page: L-Hayward, from Doct: John Osborn.; 1958 typewritten transcription of Jabez Hamlin biographical data pasted on front free endpaper</dd>
<dd>Will digitize</dd>
<dd>Condition reviewed</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Smallpox; Smallpox</div>
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<dl><dd>La Condamine, Charles-Marie de, 1701-1774</dd>
<dd>Hamlin, Jabez, 1709-1791</dd>
<dd>Osborn, John, 1741-1825</dd>
<dd>Green, Samuel, 1743-1799, printer</dd>
<dd>Green, Thomas, 1735-1812, printer</dd>
<dd>Hamlin, Jabez, 1709-1791, former owner. DNLM</dd></dl></div>
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