Letter from Benjamin Waterhouse to John Mellen and the Selectmen of the Town of Cambridge

Letter from Benjamin Waterhouse to John Mellen and the Selectmen of the Town of Cambridge

Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846 (author)

Vaccination

Cambridge (Mass.). Selectmen

Correspondence

This letter from Waterhouse proposes that Cambridge initiate a general vaccination program for all its citizens—“adopting that easy substitute afforded them by Divine Goodness”—and vaccinate the poor without charge.

Autograph letter signed from Benjamin Waterhouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts to John Mellen and the Selectmen of the Town of Cambridge

Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846

1809, circa

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Papers of Benjamin Waterhouse, 1786-1836 (inclusive). H MS c16.1

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1 manuscript letter

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DigID0002472

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Purchased for the Harvard Medical Library, 1939