Kine Pox, 1775-1802 (inclusive)
About this Item
- Creator
- Jeffries, John , 1745-1819
- Language
- English
- Origin
- Massachusetts
- Description
- 1 15 x 9 inches.
- Repository
- Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Content Notes
Ledger containing lists and charts of smallpox inoculation cases and patient case histories of Boston physician John Jeffries (1745-1819), recorded from November 1775 to June 1802. Descriptions include patients' names, ages, and physical condition, method of inoculation and symptoms. The entries dated 1800-1802 are not in chronological order.
Biographical Notes
John Jeffries (1745-1819), A.B., 1763, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, M.D., University of Aberdeen, Scotland, was a Boston physician and scientist. He was an assistant surgeon on a British naval vessel when the Revolutionary War commenced in 1775. A Loyalist, Jeffries evacuated Boston with British forces in 1776, and worked as a surgeon in a British military hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, until 1779, when he moved to London. In 1785, Jeffries became the first man (with Jean-Pierre Blanchard) to fly a balloon across the English Channel between England and France. He returned to Boston in 1790, and practiced medicine there until his death.