The correspondence of James Jurin (1684-1750) : : physician and secretary to the Royal Society / / edited by Andrea A. Rusnock.

• Superior document: Clio Medica ; 39
• VerfasserIn: Jurin, James, 1684-1750,
• TeilnehmendeR: Rusnock, Andrea Alice,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Atlanta GA : : Rodopi,, 1996.
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Series: Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Acknowledgements /; Notes on the Correspondence and Editorial Procedures /; Brief Chronology of James Jurin's Life /; Bibliography Publications /; James Jurin /; Selected Correspondence /; Calendar of Correspondence /; Index /
• ISBN: 9004418482
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Andrea A. Rusnock.

James Jurin (1684-1750) occupied a central place in the medical and scientific circles of Augustan and Georgian England. His dispassionate yet forceful advocacy of smallpox inoculation using an innovative statistical approach brought him widespread recognition both in Britain and abroad. He was Secretary to the Royal Society for seven years and participated vigorously in the most important scientific debates of the period. Jurin's correspondence, recently made available to the public, provides rich material for the study of eighteenth-century natural philosophy and medicine, especially of the smallpox inoculation debates. This volume reproduces a broad and valuable selection of letters, as well as a list of Jurin's publications and a calendar of the complete correspondence. The introductory biographical essay describes how Jurin combined a career as a successful London physician with that of a natural philosopher.