Your Friendly Neighborhood Inoculator | Lapham's Quarterly

“Daniel Sutton's book is a remarkable account of a clinician scientist at work. His many detailed observations and experiments may be unique in 18th century medicine. His investigation of the role of the skin in inoculation is one of the very first systematic studies of the pathogenesis of a disease process. Yet no one remembers him. Sutton made a serious mistake by publishing his book too late. He procrastinated.”

Boylston A. (2012). Daniel Sutton, a forgotten 18th century clinician scientist. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 105(2), 85–87. https://doi.org/10.1258/jrsm.2012.12k001