Charles Maitland

Standard Name: Maitland, Charles

Connections

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Occupation	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	She had lost her brother to smallpox, and narrowly escaped herself. She probably went to Turkey primed with accounts which had reached the Royal Society in London of the Turkish practice of inoculation, and determined...
Occupation	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	This operation too was performed by Charles Maitland (a little reluctantly: he knew he was risking his professional career). At his request, official observers attended. One of these, James Keith , who had lost several...

Timeline

17 June 1721

Newspapers reported the royal plan for an experiment as to the safety of inoculation against smallpox, to be conducted on inmates of Newgate Prison in London.

Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.

211 and n30

Winslow, Ola Elizabeth. A Destroying Angel: The Conquest of Smallpox in Colonial Boston. Houghton Mifflin, 1974.

62-3

Razzell, Peter E. The Conquest of Smallpox. Caliban Books, 1977.

9 August 1721

Charles Maitland , under the patronage of Princess Caroline , experimentally inoculated six Newgate prisoners (three of each sex) against smallpox.

Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.

213

Texts

Maitland, Charles. Mr Maitland’s Account of Inoculating the Small Pox. Printed for the author by J. Downing and to be sold by J. Roberts, 1722.