The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
taught them in his class. If great abilities constitute, if a tender heart and extensive charity adorn the real physician, no man ever deserved the title better; no man graced the science more."
Inoculation, however, did not make that progress among the people which was looked for, and Dr. Franklin, at that time in London, who was now a warm upholder of the practice, believing that the expense of the operation, which he says "was pretty high in some parts of America,"[1] might have been in the way of its adoption, judged that a pamphlet written by a skilful practitioner, showing what preparation should be used before the inoculation of children, and the precautions necessary to avoid giving the infection at the same time in the common way, how the operation was to be performed, and "on the appearance of what symptoms a physician was to be called," might be a means of removing that objection of expense, render its adoption more general, and thereby save the lives of thousands, "prevailed upon Dr. "William Heberden to write some account of the success of Inoculation, and Plain Instructions for the same," and that
- ↑ Dr. Potts informs us that in Philadelphia they seldom charged less than three pounds.
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