"In the year 1721, his present Majesty, then Prince of Wales, ordered Dr. MEAD to assist at the Inoculation of some condemned criminals, intending afterwards to recommend the practice of it to the people by the illustrious example of his own Royal Family; our ingenious Physician, not content with examining all of the effects of the Circassian operation upon six of the prisoners, caused the Chinese method likewise to be tried on the seventh. The success of these experiments is universally known ..."
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Authentic memoirs of the life of Richard Mead by Matthew Maty, 1755, pp. 30–31
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Richard Mead
Richard Mead (11 August 1673 – 16 February 1754) was an English physician, appointed in 1727 physician to George II. His work, A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it (1720), was of historic importance in the understanding of transmissible diseases.
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