Dimsdale, THOMAS (1712-1800), an English physician who wrote several works on inoculation, was famous as an inoculator (making journeys in 1768 and 1784 to Russia to inoculate the Empress Catharine and other magnates), and sat for Hertford in two parliaments.
Dimsdale, THOMAS
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 824
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